{"id":63708,"date":"2022-06-30T11:32:43","date_gmt":"2022-06-30T08:32:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=63708"},"modified":"2025-09-06T10:28:19","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T07:28:19","slug":"opensea-reports-data-breach-affecting-users","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/opensea-reports-data-breach-affecting-users\/","title":{"rendered":"OpenSea reports data breach affecting users"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OpenSea, the leading NFT marketplace, disclosed a data breach affecting user data.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\\\"twitter-tweet\\\">\n<p lang=\\\"en\\\" dir=\\\"ltr\\\">An employee of our email vendor, <a href=\\\"https:\/\/t.co\/6vM4WAcJal\\\">https:\/\/t.co\/6vM4WAcJal<\/a>, misused their employee access to download &#038; share email addresses with an unauthorized external party. <\/p>\n<p>Email addresses provided to OpenSea by users or newsletter subscribers were impacted.<a href=\\\"https:\/\/t.co\/Osb6qqkqZZ\\\">https:\/\/t.co\/Osb6qqkqZZ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 OpenSea (@opensea) <a href=\\\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/opensea\/status\/1542338816551243776?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\\\">June 30, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\\\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\\\" charset=\\\"utf-8\\\"><\/script>\\n\\n\\n\\n<\/p>\n<p>The breach stemmed from a misuse of access by an employee of Customer.io \u2014 the email-delivery service used by OpenSea.<\/p>\n<p>\\n\\n\\n\\n<\/p>\n<p>The worker transmitted NFT marketplace customers&#8217; email addresses to a third party; OpenSea warned of potential phishing attempts.<\/p>\n<p>\\n\\n\\n\\n<\/p>\n<p>The platform said attackers could attempt to contact potential victims using an email address that closely resembles the official opensea.io domain.<\/p>\n<p>\\n\\n\\n\\n<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\\\"twitter-tweet\\\" data-conversation=\\\"none\\\">\n<p lang=\\\"en\\\" dir=\\\"ltr\\\">1) We will ONLY send you emails from the domain \u2018<a href=\\\"https:\/\/t.co\/3qvMZjxmDB\\\">https:\/\/t.co\/3qvMZjxmDB<\/a>.\u2019 Be aware of attempts to impersonate OpenSea through slight variations of our domain name, like below: <a href=\\\"https:\/\/t.co\/2tvgC6g3kD\\\">pic.twitter.com\/2tvgC6g3kD<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 OpenSea (@opensea) <a href=\\\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/opensea\/status\/1542338818736394240?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\\\">June 30, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\\\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\\\" charset=\\\"utf-8\\\"><\/script>\\n\\n\\n\\n<\/p>\n<p>The platform reported the incident to law enforcement.<\/p>\n<p>\\n\\n\\n\\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/block-shares-slide-after-report-of-user-data-breach\">data breach affecting 8.2 million American users<\/a> of the Cash App is believed to have occurred due to the fault of a former employee of the payments company Block.<\/p>\n<p>\\n\\n\\n\\n<\/p>\n<p>Read ForkLog&#8217;s Bitcoin news on our <a href=\\\"\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\\\" target=\\\"\u201c_blank\u201d\\\" rel=\\\"\u201cnofollow\u201d noopener\\\">Telegram<\/a> \u2014 cryptocurrency news, prices and analytics.<\/p>\n<p>\\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OpenSea, the leading NFT marketplace, disclosed a data breach affecting user data.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":63709,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1188,1265],"class_list":["post-63708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-data-breach","tag-opensea"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"19","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63708"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63710,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63708\/revisions\/63710"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}