TLDR:

IRS won a lawsuit against Kraken and is making it dislose

  1. Name (including full name, any pseudonym, or any user ID);
  2. Date of Birth;
  3. Taxpayer Identification Number;
  4. Physical Address;
  5. Telephone Number;
  6. Email Address;
  7. All documents described in Request No. 4 for the period January 1, 2016 through December 31, 2020 except that: a) Kraken shall only be required to produce transaction hash (ID) and blockchain addresses to the extent that information has been or is in the future backfilled into its transaction data; and b) as to Request 4(d), Kraken may produce raw data even though it does not specifically demarcate chainsplitting transactions.

All transactional ledgers responsive to Request No. 5 for the period January 1, 2016 through December 31, 2020.

Kraken wanted to file the information under seal (that it, giving it to IRS but preventing it to become public record). The court denied the motion.

So all the above details will most likely become public information once Kraken Complies.

In other words, if you have used a transparent ledger, it is a good idea to consider ‘Five Dollar Wrench attack’ into your OPSEC.

Sauce: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.407965/gov.uscourts.cand.407965.34.0.pdf

Bump this thread if you can, so more anons can read this. Repoast it on plebbit if you have an account there.

The ramifications of this disclosure is more important than what it appears to be.

  • tusker@monero.town
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    1 year ago

    What a surprise, the tyrannical communist mafia controlled by criminal banks was able to force someone to do something that endangers many individuals.

    The only way to keep your personal information private is to not give it away. Next time some garbage “company” tries to harvest your personal data tell then to go pound sand and cancel the account immediately. Make sure to let them know that their illegitimate request endangers the safety of you and your family and they should be shamed to even ask.

  • hexachrome@monero.town
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    1 year ago

    Headline is incorrect, as it was the IRS, not SEC. Unfortunately that’s far more scary for end users.

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    1 year ago

    Does this mean that all Kraken users are at risk of being doxxed in a similar way as when that big lending service collapsed?