NFT marketplace OpenSea has suffered a data breach in which email addresses of users and customers were obtained by an employee of its email delivery vendor using fraudulent means.
“If you have shared your email with OpenSea in the past, you should assume that you were affected. We are working with Customer.io in their ongoing investigation, and we have reported the incident to law enforcement. Granted,” OpenSea said.
It states that since data compromise Email addresses are included, the potential for email phishing attempts may increase.
Data breach reported to law enforcement agencies
“Please be aware that malicious actors may attempt to contact you using an email address that looks identical to our official email domain ‘opensea.io’,” NFT Marketplace said. ,
OpenSea employee recently arrested for fraud
Recently, Nathaniel Chastain, former product chief of OpenSea, was charged by the United States Department of Justice with one count of wire fraud and one count of money laundering.
According to the Justice Department, Chastain used confidential information about NFTs appearing on OpenC’s homepage for his personal financial gain.
Later he was arrested.
OpenSea’s CEO Takes Efforts Against Fraud
The company’s co-founder and CEO Darrin Finzer then committed to advancing efforts to prevent piracy, scams and IP breaches in the marketplace.
Finzer said that while plagiarism, IP infringement and piracy are prohibited under OpenSE’s terms, “at our scale, comprehensive policies were not sufficient.”
He said the company has introduced a new verification system that more prominently identifies authentic accounts and content to keep scammers out, and OpenC’s copy mint prevention system, the most sophisticated spam and fraud mitigation tool the company has ever built. Is.