OpenSea warns of phishing attacks due to data theft
OpenSea warns of phishing attacks due to data theft
- An employee of Customer.io shared email addresses with an unauthorized external party
- OpenSea warned users of fraudsters who tried to output themselves with fake domain names for the platform
The Collectibles platform OpenSea made customers aware of a data protection injury after employees found that e-mail addresses were shared with an external party.
CEO CORY HARDMAN said in A Post on Wednesday that an employee of customer Ö mer.io The provider of e-mail delivery from OpenSea, abused his access by downgrading customer data.
"If you have shared your email in the past with OpenSea, you should assume that you were affected," he wrote. "We are working with Customer.io on the ongoing investigation and have reported this incident to the law enforcement authorities."
The company also warned of being exposed to phishing attacks-attempts from cybercriminals that pretend to be credible institutions to get confidential information-by using a domain name that is similar to the official "OpenSea.io", such as "OpenSea.org" or "OpenSae". .io. “
Screenshot posted on Twitter Show OpenSea notified customers by email about the data protection injury. Some users Requested.
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Customer.io did not answer the request from Blockworks immediately after a comment.
A similar incident occurred in March when Hacker injured the marketing third-party provider Hubspot to attack large crypto stakeholders. Nydig, Pantera capital, Blockfi Rel = "Nofollow Noopener" Target = "_ blank" htfs://twitter.com/swanbitcoin/status/1505261111813?s=20&t=cod2rqu8pdmbxcaxeuf-a "> Schwan Bitcoin belonged to the affected companies.
Thanks to another incident,OpenSea was of difficulties before the data breakdown in a sea. At the beginning of this month, the Ministry of Justice complained to its former product manager Nathaniel Chastain for insider trade in connection with non -funny tokens (NFTS). He was accused of charges of transfer fraud and another indictment of money laundering.
chastain resigned from his Position at OpenSea in September after he was suspected of benefiting from insider information and bought NFTs before they were published.
OpenSea remains the number one marketplace after volume, with more than six times the sales of the second largest NFT marketplace in the last 30 days, the data from dappradar .
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The contribution OpenSea warns of phishing attacks due to data protection violations is not financial advice.
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