Bitget says TiDB Cloud data incident did not involve user or sensitive information
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Xie Jiayin said TiDB Cloud was breached, but Bitget did not involve user data or the leakage of sensitive information such as passwords.
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⚡️Xie Jiayin:TiDB Cloud The platform was breached;Bitget only some public data was stored and the service had been discontinued for more than months; no sensitive information was involved
According to BlockBeats,October 20，Bitget Xie Jiayin, Head of Greater China, disclosed in a post that hackers breached and obtained data from PingCAP's cloud database product TiDB Cloud.Bitget, Baidu, and other companies had previously cooperated with this data service provider.
Meanwhile,Bitget previously stored only some public trade-log data in TiDB Cloud, and had stopped using the service more than months ago. This incident did not involve user data, and no sensitive information such as passwords was leaked, so users need not worry.
He further explained that so-called public trade data refers to information that all users can view in the trading channel.
Original link https://m.theblockbeats.info/flash/372785
Key points
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According to BlockBeats,October 20，Bitget Xie Jiayin, Head of Greater China, disclosed in a post that data in TiDB Cloud was obtained by hackers.
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Xie Jiayin said that Bitget, Baidu, and other companies had previously cooperated with this data service provider.
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Xie Jiayin said that Bitget only stored some public trade-log data in TiDB Cloud.
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Xie Jiayin said that Bitget stopped using the service more than months ago.
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Xie Jiayin said that this incident did not involve user data, and no sensitive information such as passwords was leaked.
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Xie Jiayin explained that public trade data is information that all users can view in the trading channel.
AI-assisted interpretation
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This is a statement regarding a third-party cloud database security incident. According to Xie Jiayin, data previously stored by Bitget consisted of trade logs visible to all users, rather than user profiles or passwords, and the service had already been discontinued.
Why it matters to readers
The incident involves a data service previously used by Bitget, so users may be concerned about whether account data was affected; the current statement denies any leakage of user data or sensitive information such as passwords.
Bitget Users may monitor whether the platform or service provider issues further statements; based on the currently available materials alone, the scope of the breach cannot be independently confirmed.
Risks and unknowns
The evidence only relays Xie Jiayin's disclosure and does not provide independent technical investigation results.
No statement from PingCAP regarding the scope of the breach, affected customers, or data types appears in the evidence.
The evidence does not specify exactly what data the hackers obtained, the amount involved, or the method of intrusion.
The evidence does not provide independently verifiable Bitget security audit results.
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