Debezium Connectors are failing while reading binlog: Unknown event type 100

{
"name": "mysql-connector-db",
"connector": {
"state": "RUNNING",
"worker_id": "<IP_ADDRESS>:8083"
},
"tasks": [
{
"id": 0,
*"state": "FAILED",*
"worker_id": "<IP_ADDRESS>:8083",
"trace": "org.apache.kafka.connect.errors.ConnectException: Unknown event type 100\n\tat io.debezium.connector.mysql.AbstractReader.wrap(AbstractReader.java:230)\n\tat io.debezium.connector.mysql.AbstractReader.failed(AbstractReader.java:196)\n\tat io.debezium.connector.mysql.BinlogReader$ReaderThreadLifecycleListener.onEventDeserializationFailure(BinlogReader.java:1069)\n\tat com.github.shyiko.mysql.binlog.BinaryLogClient.listenForEventPackets(BinaryLogClient.java:935)\n\tat com.github.shyiko.mysql.binlog.BinaryLogClient.connect(BinaryLogClient.java:580)\n\tat com.github.shyiko.mysql.binlog.BinaryLogClient$7.run(BinaryLogClient.java:825)\n\tat java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:748)\nCaused by: java.io.IOException: Unknown event type 100\n\tat com.github.shyiko.mysql.binlog.event.deserialization.EventHeaderV4Deserializer.getEventType(EventHeaderV4Deserializer.java:45)\n\tat com.github.shyiko.mysql.binlog.event.deserialization.EventHeaderV4Deserializer.deserialize(EventHeaderV4Deserializer.java:35)\n\tat com.github.shyiko.mysql.binlog.event.deserialization.EventHeaderV4Deserializer.deserialize(EventHeaderV4Deserializer.java:27)\n\tat com.github.shyiko.mysql.binlog.event.deserialization.EventDeserializer.nextEvent(EventDeserializer.java:212)\n\tat io.debezium.connector.mysql.BinlogReader$1.nextEvent(BinlogReader.java:239)\n\tat com.github.shyiko.mysql.binlog.BinaryLogClient.listenForEventPackets(BinaryLogClient.java:922)\n\t... 3 more\n"
}
],
"type": "source"
}