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<i>SEC v. Kraken</i>

2023-11-20 [vendor] Kraken sued by U.S. SEC
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Incident Details

Kraken is the latest cryptocurrency exchange to face a lawsuit from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. According to the SEC, Kraken violated securities laws by listing tokens like Polygon (MATIC) and Solana (SOL), which the SEC has argued in this and in other lawsuits are unregistered securities.Furthermore, the SEC claims that Kraken commingled corporate and customer funds, “at times pa[ying] operational expenses directly from bank accounts that hold customer cash.“Kraken’s new CEO, Dave Ripley, posted on Twitter that the company “plan[s] to vigorously defend [their] position” that they do not list securities.

Technical Details

Initial Attack Vector
Regulatory / legal action
Vendor / Product
Kraken sued by U.S. SEC

Timeline

  1. 2023-11-20 Breach occurred
  2. 2023-11-20 Publicly disclosed