{"id":"tp-3158","type":"article-newspaper","title":"Binance offers lifetime VIP membership to hack victims, blames KYC vendor for image leaks","author":"Charissa Echavez","publisher":"TOKENPOST Inc.","url":"https://www.tokenpost.com/news/business/3158","datePublished":"2019-08-26T04:00:42.000Z","dateModified":"2019-08-26T04:00:42.000Z","language":"en","abstract":"Major cryptocurrency firm Binance announced that it will offer a free, lifetime VIP membership account to all its affected users following the leak of its customer’s Know Your Customer (KYC) data, the company broke th…","section":"Business","references":[{"title":"blog post","url":"https://www.binance.com/en/blog/371631019142385664/Update--Action-Response-ThirdParty-Vendor-KYC-Matter"},{"title":"found inconsistencies","url":"http://tokenpost.com/Thousands-of-Binance-users-KYC-data-reportedly-hacked-CEO-Zhao-urges-not-to-fall-for-FUD-2942"},{"title":"hacked by an anonymous Twitter user","url":"http://tokenpost.com/Binance-Jerseys-Twitter-and-domain-name-hacked-to-reward-hacker-for-the-compromise-3068"},{"title":"TokenPost","url":"https://www.tokenpost.com"}]}