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OpenSea, the world’s largest NFT marketplace, suffered a personal data breach

In January, the market hit a whopping $13 billion valuation. | Font: The open sea

The open sealargest market for non-fungible tokens (NFTs) around the world has suffered a personal data breach that puts its user accounts at risk.

The company says it’s already working to avoid a big impact on its consumers, but warns people to be careful about malicious emails they might receive.

A business

According to The open seaCustomer.io employee, email provider hired market, abused the access of its employees to download and exchange users’ email addresses The open sea and subscribers to a newsletter with an unauthorized outside party.

“If you have shared your email with The open sea in the past, you should have assumed that you were affected,” the company said.

Over 1.8 million users have made at least one purchase on the Ethereum network in The open seabased on data collected by Dune Analytics, an open source cryptanalytics platform.

Problems with NFTs

Cryptocurrency startups have become a target for cyberattacks as the industry sees explosive growth and huge sums of money.

at the moment, The open sea He points out that they have already reported the incident to the authorities.

If you are a user of the platform, it is advisable to change the passwords of all accounts associated with the specified email address. Also try not to open any suspicious links you receive.

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Source: RPP

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