OpenSea reported a user data leak
- June 30, 2022
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OpenSea, the leading platform for immutable tokens, has reported a user data leak. An employee of our email vendor, https://t.co/6vM4WAcJal, abused their employee’s access to download email addresses
OpenSea, the leading platform for immutable tokens, has reported a user data leak.
An employee of our email vendor, https://t.co/6vM4WAcJal, abused their employee’s access to download email addresses and share them with an unauthorized external party.
Email addresses provided to OpenSea by users or newsletter subscribers are affected.https://t.co/Osb6qqkqZZ
— OpenSea (@opensea) 30 June 2022
This was due to an abuse of access to information by an employee of Customer.io, an email delivery service used by OpenSea.
NFT has handed over the email addresses of its marketplace customers to a third party. OpenSea has warned of possible consequences in the form of phishing attempts.
The site team noted that attackers could attempt to contact potential victims using an email address similar to the official opensea.io domain.
1) We will ONLY email you from the domain ‘https://t.co/3qvMZjxmDB’. Be aware of attempts to impersonate OpenSea via minor variations of our domain, such as: pic.twitter.com/2tvgC6g3kD
— OpenSea (@opensea) 30 June 2022
The platform reported the incident to law enforcement.
Earlier, it was known about the data leak of 8.2 million US users of Cash App. It was due to the fault of a former employee of the Block payment company.
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