Anticipating Phishing Attacks, OpenSea Warns Users About Email Data Breach

JAKARTA – The hectic world of crypto, metaverse and NFT has indeed brought a big impact, including many positive things that have happened. However, this world cannot be separated from negative and detrimental events such as crypto asset hacking, NFT fraud, and so on. Recently, many scams have happened to NFT enthusiasts. Even the developers can also be affected. One of them is the case of phishing experienced by OpenSea.

Thursday, June 30, popular NFT marketplace, OpenSea, announced that it was the victim of a data security breach. This was discovered after an employee of a Customer.io vendor received an email from an unauthorized Opensea account and downloaded and shared his email address. The employee did not know if the email he received came from an OpenSea account which turned out to be fake and unofficial. After downloading and sharing his own email, the data leaked.

Reporting from World NFT News, in response to this, OpenSea announced to its users that if a user has shared an email with OpenSea in the past, they should assume that the data from the email was impacted as it was for the employee.

After the incident, OpenSea stated that users should anticipate fraud and phishing like this. They say that please be aware that someone may be trying to contact users using email addresses that are visually similar to the official OpenSea email domain, such as 'opensea.io' and 'opensea.org' or others.

In order to prevent this event from happening again, OpenSea shares steps that users can take to minimize the risk and avoid this so as not to become a victim of phishing attacks. The steps are that users need to be careful with emails that try to impersonate OpenSea or its email addresses, avoid downloading anything received in OpenSea emails, avoid giving out passwords or secret wallet phrases, and avoid approving transactions in wallets from links or hints. sent by e-mail.

This kind of thing doesn't happen just once to OpenSea. For example, in May, OpenSea fell victim to a phishing attempt on its Discord server. In January, there were also hackers who could exploit the OpenSea platform to buy non-tradable tokens below their market price. The unfortunate incident resulted in the company having to refund approximately $1.8 million to users affected by the attack.

For NFT collectors and crypto holders, it seems that they need to be careful and alert to this kind of incident. Because anywhere and anytime can happen. Therefore, users are expected to always be careful with the details in a transaction and not carelessly trade in the NFT and crypto marketplaces.