Earlier this week, NFT marketplace OpenSea revealed a data breach and warned users of phishing assaults that could target them in the coming days.
The company’s Head of Security, Cory Hardman, said that an employee of its email delivery vendor, Customer.io, allegedly downloaded and shared stored email addresses linked with OpenSea accounts and newsletter subscriptions with an unknown third party.
“If you have shared your email with OpenSea in the past, you should assume you were impacted. We are working with Customer.io in their ongoing investigation, and we have reported this incident to law enforcement,” Hardman stated. Because the data compromise included email addresses, there may be a heightened likelihood for email phishing attempts.”
The crypto platform has more than 600,000 users and a transaction volume that surpassed $20 billion earlier this January. Customers were also told to look for emails sent from domains that hackers could exploit to spoof OpenSea’s official email domain opensea.io.
