OpenSea data breach causes massive leak of users’ email addresses

OpenSea data breach causes massive leak of users’ email addresses

The NFT marketplace noted that it has reported the incident to law enforcement officials and that an inquiry is underway. OpenSea, the world’s largest nonfungible tokens (NFT) marketplace, has issued a warning to customers after it was discovered that an employee of Customer.io, a platform for managing email newsletters and campaigns, leaked the list of OpenSea customers’ emails to an outside party.The breach has affected all of the users who have given their email to the marketplace, whether it's for the platform or its newsletter. Following the breach, OpenSea advised customers against....


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