A data leak from Iranian crypto exchange bit24.cash has exposed personal data from nearly 230,000 Iranian citizens. Iran has taken up cryptocurrency significantly due to limited access to foreign markets. In 2023, Iranian crypto exchanges saw almost $3 billion in transactions.
Researchers found a misconfigured MinIO that granted access to S3 buckets containing users’ KYC data. MinIO is an S3 compatible object storage system for large scale machine learning and data workloads.