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18,500 People Thought Buying Gift Cards Made Them Anonymous
On March 1, Bitrefill (a major gift card provider) was hacked by North Korea's Lazarus Group.
18,500 user purchase records exposed:
- what they bought,
- when and with what crypto.
- email addresses
- IP addresses
- in some cases, names were leaked as well
It may look like gift cards give you some anonymity but in reality you're just passing your data from one provider to another.
Published at
2026-05-18 10:01:16 UTCEvent JSON
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"pubkey": "4bc5430270af68ba54fb2c3101b6b0015d877170ddd59825a617881a4644281b",
"created_at": 1779098476,
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