{"id":11957,"date":"2022-06-30T22:43:24","date_gmt":"2022-06-30T22:43:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nftandcrypto-news.com\/nft\/everything-to-know-about-openseas-massive-data-breach\/"},"modified":"2022-06-30T22:43:27","modified_gmt":"2022-06-30T22:43:27","slug":"everything-to-know-about-openseas-massive-data-breach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nftandcrypto-news.com\/nft\/everything-to-know-about-openseas-massive-data-breach\/","title":{"rendered":"Everything to Know About OpenSea’s Massive Data Breach"},"content":{"rendered":"
Last night, OpenSea \u2014 widely regarded as the world\u2019s most popular NFT marketplace \u2014 dropped a bombshell of a blog post. According to their report, they use Customer.io as an email vendor. The problem? One of the vendor\u2019s employees\u00a0 \u201cmisused their employee access to download & share email addresses [of OpenSea\u2019s userbase] with an unauthorized third party.\u201d <\/p>\n
Ultimately, the scale of the security breach seems to be simply massive. A large chunk of OpenSea\u2019s active user base of over 1.5 million, in addition to anyone who subscribed to its newsletter, may have had their email address compromised. \u201cIf you have shared your email with OpenSea in the past, you should assume you were impacted,\u201d the company said. <\/p>\n
On Twitter<\/a>, a number of OpenSea users are already complaining about an uptick in spam emails, calls, and text messages. <\/p>\n One of the most prevalent forms of hacking attacks and thefts in the NFT space is the age-old phishing attack. Since 2021, hackers have successfully plundered millions of dollars worth of NFTs via malicious links across the entire space: OpenSea included.<\/p>\n With so many email addresses from OpenSea users exposed, bad actors could easily impersonate OpenSea or its employees, goading users into clicking links that would see their NFT wallets and collections emptied in a flash. The NFT giant itself has warned users in a thread on Twitter<\/a> about what they might find in their email inboxes in the coming weeks.<\/p>\n OpenSea informed users via email if their addresses were among those sold off to the third party in the data breach. Some users were quick to point out the irony of it all.<\/p>\nShould you worry about the OpenSea breach?<\/h2>\n