Thousands of investors who poured money and time into the John McAfee-evangelized cryptocurrency ecommerce project, Bezop, have become the victims of data theft. The startup reportedly left the personal details of more than 25,000 investors on a publicly accessible MongoDB database, including links to scanned passports, drivers licenses, and other forms of photo ID.
As “secure” as the eventual platform may be though, Bezop doesn’t appear to have done a tremendous job of securing its early investors’ information. The public database was accessible as recently as March 30, according toMacKeeperSecurityand revealed just about everything about investors — including scanned document images. The thousands of individuals affected by this leak are said to be early investors and promoters, the latter of whom were paid in Bezop’s tokens to promote the cryptocurrency on forums and social media.
When questioned about the leak byThreatPost, Bezop’s Chief Technical Officer Deryck Jones brushed it off, suggesting that his leak happened in January during the initial coin offering. Although he claimed it was “disappointing,” he suggested that all investors had been informed at the time.
Since this story broke, Bezop’s social media response has been rather mocking, too. Even so, it has yet to do anything about the multitude of scam responses in its tweets’ replies. This has become increasingly common withcryptocurrency promotion on Twitter in recent months.
Old news, Fud or just people in a dimension where time is slower doesnt matter we can officially claim as seen on Gizmodo… happy we are finally getting some press.#weLoveGizmodo$bezop@Gizmodohttps://t.co/XLdpjvjYf0
— Bezop Network (@BezopNetwork)July 10, 2025
Despite this seeming internal confidence in Bezop’s ability to handle this relatively monumental leak of information, elsewhere there has been criticism of Bezop and its operators. Thebounty program received special condemnationfrom contributors, prompting Bezop tofollow up with an apology postof its own earlier this year. It also had to take steps toclarify the involvement of paid promoterslike McAfee.
