Bankruptcy advisors to collapsed crypto exchange FTX passed customer information to the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), according to court records. 

A number of FBI offices—including Philadelphia and Oakland—have received client transaction data, consultancy Alvarez & Marsal documents show. Bloomberg first reported the news.

The documents reveal that feds made the request to sift through the data to “investigate all transactions and customer accounts.” But the court records, made public yesterday, do not show details of just how much information federal agents received. 

Customer privacy has been a hot topic since the collapse of FTX last year. Lawyers repeatedly blocked attempts from major news outlets—including the New York Times and Dow Jones & Company—to reveal customer names. 

They argued that former customers of the collapsed crypto platform could be subject to scams and id

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