Arkham May Have Inadvertently Doxxed Many of its Users

Arkham Intelligence, a blockchain espionage firm in the context of Chainalysis and others, recently announced the launch of a platform for identifying and trading information about blockchain users, as well as the release of a new ARKM token to go along with it.

Slander as a service

Touted as “the world’s first on-chain intelligence exchange,” Arkham Intelligence will allow users of the service to do so Awarding bonuses To get any information about blockchain users.

“Our vision for Intel Exchange is to create a decentralized information monetization economy powered by smart contracts, where anyone can earn through their skills and experience. As such, all transactions on Arkham Marketplace will be conducted through smart contracts audited by our partner Quantstamp.”

There are no restrictions on the type of information that can be requested, although the company has already promised to block spammers and those who provide low-quality information.

Once the requested information has been disclosed, the person who posted the bounty will have an exclusive 90-day period to use the newly collected information as they see fit. After this period, the information will become part of the public Arkham database.

Naturally, the announcement of a tool that could strip away one of the main things that draw some users to blockchain technology has left the crypto community divided, with some Accuse Arkham to try to become the arbiter of good and evil.

More pessimistic users also shared, reminding others that this platform can easily be used to reveal the identities of whales, which can be targeted online or in real life – just like what happened after the Ledger wallet leak.

Announcing the world’s first intelligence exchange

Buy and sell information about the owner of any blockchain wallet address – anonymously, via a smart contract. pic.twitter.com/4xr7dLvOjp

– Arkham (ArkhamIntel) July 10, 2023

Meanwhile, Arkham seems to have got a head start in the blockchain-identity de-initialization game — starting with its fans.

Doxxing their own database

Shortly after announcing the launch of its new service, Arkham came under fire from its users via referral links to the platform’s queue.

The referral, which was thought to contain a random string of numbers, actually encrypted the user’s email address using BASE64 – a very easy encryption algorithm Decode.

LMAO divorced. everyone #feet Shared referral links on Twitter are DOXXING for everyone because the email is in the referral URL. @tweethttps://t.co/HM6veJOmNp -> bkatmis012@gmail.com https://t.co/1INvtXLEva pic.twitter.com/m38VnNMS8k

– m4gicpotato ⟁ (@m4gicpotato) July 10, 2023

Some users have even accused Arkham of doing this on purpose, as it is unlikely that a company centered around espionage would have made such a huge mistake by mistake.