OpenSea, one of the largest NFT marketplaces, has said that it has suffered a data breach. The marketplace said that an employee of Customer.io misused their access to download and share customer email addresses with an external party. Customer.io is a platform for managing emails, newsletters, and campaigns. OpenSea Email Data Breach In a blog post published on Thursday, OpenSea said that employees of Customer.io had misused their employee access to download and share email addresses provided by OpenSea users and subscribers to their newsletter with an unauthorized external party. An employee of our email vendor, https://t.co/6vM4WAcJal, misused their employee access to download & share email addresses with an unauthorized external party. Email addresses provided to OpenSea by users or newsletter subscribers were impacted.https://t.co/Osb6qqkqZZ — OpenSea (@opensea) June 30, 2022 Any customer that has shared their email with the marketplace – be it for the platform or its newsletter – is likely impacted by the breach. The NFT platform further warned users that this could result in “a heightened likelihood for email phishing attempts.” The NFT marketplace also said that it is now in contact with law enforcement officials over the breach and that an investigation is underway. OpenSea Continues Going Through Exploits The latest data breach is the latest string of attacks on OpenSea this year. In May, the platform’s Discord serve...
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