In June, OpenSea revealed user email addresses were compromised due to vendor employee error.
As virtually all NFT investors do, if you have an OpenSea account then you likely had your email address leaked in late June due to a company-wide data breach.
This is not the first cyber-attack on the popular NFT marketplace but is yet another reminder to investors of the vulnerabilities of online Cryptocurrency and NFT trading.
On June 29th, OpenSea posted a statement to Twitter explaining that “[a]n employee of our email vendor, Customer.io, misused their employee access to download & share email addresses with an unauthorized external party.”
The post further states that “Email addresses provided to OpenSea were impacted.”
If your email is linked to an OpenSea account or you signed up for their newsletter, your email address was likely included in the data breach possibly along with your phone number.
As a result of the breach, leaked email addresses may be targeted by email phishing attacks. These attacks range from malicious links to attachments and more from accounts that may purport to be OpenSea. These scam accounts may possess addresses virtually identical to OpenSea’s but with slight variations.
One thing all investors should be conscious of is not to open any links in emails that you do not trust or expect. In the same vein, investors should not open unfamiliar attachments that were not expected from that sender.
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