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CFCA: Precertificate with postalCode and streetAddress swapped

RESOLVED FIXED China Financial Certification Authority (CFCA)

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AI Summary

This case involves the China Financial Certification Authority (CFCA) disclosing a compliance issue regarding a precertificate that had the postalCode and streetAddress fields swapped. The issue was reported by Michel Le Bihan on May 27, 2022, and CFCA acknowledged the problem on June 1, 2022. They took immediate action by revoking the incorrectly issued certificate on June 2, 2022, and issuing a corrected certificate the same day. CFCA has implemented measures to prevent similar errors in the future, including staff training and system checks. The case has been resolved with the certificate successfully revoked.

Model: gpt-4o-mini Generated: 2026-06-13 21:24 UTC Revised: 2026-06-16 18:06 UTC Confidence: 0.85 20 comments

Chronology

2022-06-02 CFCA revoked the incorrectly issued certificate and issued a corrected one.

Thread Activity

2022-05-27 Lebihan representative — Reported a precertificate with swapped postalCode and streetAddress fields.
2022-06-01 China Financial Certification Authority (CFCA) — CFCA confirmed the certificate was wrongly issued and planned to revoke it.
2022-06-02 China Financial Certification Authority (CFCA) — CFCA revoked the wrong certificate and issued a new one.
2022-06-15 China Financial Certification Authority (CFCA) — CFCA reported the resolution of the OCSP issue related to the certificate.
2022-08-15 Mozilla representative — Inquired about any additional bugs found in the system.

Participants

Lebihan representative China Financial Certification Authority (CFCA) Mozilla representative

External References

Original Bugzilla Case crt.sh crt.sh

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