OpenSea, the world’s largest NFT marketplace, has been hit by an email data breach that affects the majority of its customers.
Employees of Customer.io, an email vendor with OpenSea, have reportedly abused access to download and share email addresses with unauthorized outside parties.Company Said The email addresses of users and newsletter subscribers provided to OpenSea have been affected.
“If you’ve shared email with OpenSea in the past, you have to assume that you’ve been affected,” the company said.
OpenSea pointed out that data breaches can lead to email Fishing If you receive an email that has not been sent from the official OpenSea domain, we warn you to be careful.
1) Send only emails from the domain’https://t.co/3qvMZjxmDB.. Beware of attempts to impersonate OpenSea with a slight change in domain name, as shown below. pic.twitter.com/2tvgC6g3kD
— OpenSea (@opensea) June 30, 2022
Customer.io has already begun investigating the issue, and the case has been reported to law enforcement agencies, the company said. Users have already begun to report an increase in phishing emails from fake OpenSea domains.
This is not the first time OpenSea users have been targeted by phishing scams. Nearly $ 2 million of NFTs were stolen in February of this year. Elaborate phishing attack Affected 32 users.The attack triggered activity in OpenSea Drop The platform has lost more than one-third of its trading volume and one-fifth of its users.
Marketing tools such as email newsletter platforms and customer relationship management (CRM) software continue to be the security weaknesses of many crypto and blockchain platforms. March, Data breaches in HubSpotOne of the most popular marketing campaign platforms, has influenced over 20 large crypto companies.
BlockFi, Circle, Swan Bitcoin, Pantera Capital, and NYDIG all reported that some of their information was leaked to hackers. Both companies said there was no impact on their business or finances, but users reported a significant increase in phishing emails.
