Tokensoft intentionally publishes personal data of around 5,000 users who they believe are "bad actors"

November 12, 2022
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Tokensoft intentionally publishes personal data of around 5,000 users who they believe are "bad actors"

Tokensoft is a project that aims to help web3 projects launch fairly, without the launches being gamed. The group evidently thought they had come across 5,000 or so users who had been gaming airdrops, to which their solution was to publish a list of private user data about those individuals. The list included full names, wallet addresses, and physical and IP addresses.Several users replied to the message in shock that their data was exposed, saying they'd never done anything wrong. The Tokensoft employee replied, "If you made it on the naughty list...yes, shame on you....I shared your info, better luck next time".The project later deleted the link from the Discord server, then tried to claim that it had never been posted at all.

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@web3isgreat isn't it just... plain illegal?
@web3isgreat @nicolas_noble at least if any of the users are European, it is extremely illegal. The General Data Protection Directive can result in heavy fines for obvious transgressions like this.
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