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Information reaching Kossyderrickent has it that 101k users including their wallets and X accounts have been exposed after FriendTech user data got leaked.
The Friend.tech project, which has recently garnered significant attention in the crypto community due to its rapid financial growth, is now facing scrutiny over data leak and security concerns. A tweet from Cos raised alarms by suggesting that over 100,000 Twitter accounts corresponding to certain wallet addresses have been compromised. This breach poses a significant privacy threat, as these addresses could potentially be linked to unveil more private information about users.
Friend.tech, operating as a web3 social application on the Coinbase-incubated Layer 2 chain Base, provides a platform for trading shares in Twitter accounts. This feature gives shareholders unique access to private chat rooms.
With the platform gaining traction due to recent high-profile signups, it has also generated protocol fees exceeding $1.42 million in the last 24 hours, ranking it among the top three crypto projects in terms of user-paid fees.
Friend.tech responded by saying the information was publicly available and hence not leaked.
“This is just someone scraping our public API that shows the association between public wallet addresses and public Twitter usernames,” the company said in a comment on social media. “It’s like saying someone hacked you by looking at your public Twitter feed.”
Further adding to the security concerns, Spot On Chain highlighted potential vulnerabilities with the Friend.tech platform. Despite generating an impressive 2,953 ETH (approximately $5M) in fees within just 11 days and the current value of all shares standing at 4,435 ETH (around $7.4M), the project has issues such as potential “data leaks via API” and the unsettling ability for users to “buy/sell shares without an invitation code from the contract.”
Amid these concerns, the platform has also seen an influx of bot activity. DeFiyst pointed out the ongoing Miner Extractable Value (MEV) war on Friend.tech’s Base, with bots improving exponentially since the open-sourcing of the first snipers last week.
FriendTech user data has been leaked!!
101k users including their wallets and X accounts have been exposed
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