Latest Filings Of Celsius Reveal Thousands Of Customers' Details
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Requests For Hiding Identities Rejected
The judge repeatedly rejected Celsius' requests for the identities of its users to be omitted from the court documents because doing so is customary in bankruptcy proceedings during the court case.
There were no blockchain transaction records, such as hashes describing specific transactions, among the 18.6 terabytes of user data. However, it included the times and transaction amounts, indicating the possibility of identifying those transactions. Anyone might use this to link the listed users' cryptocurrency wallets, which were previously anonymous, and view their holdings as well as other transactional data.
Ex-CEO Alex Mashinsky
The court document also described how executives might have taken money out of the site before its collapse. Reportedly, Celsius' former CEO Alex Mashinsky withdrew $10 million before the company's liquidity problems were known to the general public.
However, the most recent court document also showed that chief strategy officer Daniel Leon took $7 million out of the network before it stopped allowing user withdrawals.
Additionally, before the site stopped accepting withdrawals, Mashinsky's wife Kristine took out 2 million Celsius tokens (CEL). Contrarily, chief technology officer Nuke Goldstein has a current cryptocurrency portfolio worth about $550,000. In response to accusations of improper withdrawals, Mashinsky stated that he planned to use $8 million to pay his state and federal taxes.
