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OpenSea Security Breach

OpenSea issued a blog post earlier today informing its community that an employee of Customer.io , its email vendor, had reportedly shared a list of the marketplace&39s users&39 and newsletter subscribers&39 email addresses with an unauthorized third party. The Customer.io &nbspemployee had allegedly abused their position in order to obtian access to the list before subsequently sharing this information with the unnamed third party. Following the breach, OpenSea cautioned users to expect potential phishing attacks, claiming that email phishing attempts are more common than ever before nowadays. It also advised users not to share crypto wallet passwords and addresses or participate in any transactions posted through email links. Although OpenSea has yet to confirm if the breach involved crypto wallet data, it did issue a warning according to which anyone who had shared an email address with the company to exercise caution nonetheless. Lastly, although the NFT marketplace has already reported the breach to law enforcement authorities, it does not change the fact that this is just the latest incident associated with OpenSea&39s platform, with some customers even considering leaving the marketplace behind altogether due to the apparent lack of safety and security.

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