Nowadays, most internet-based websites utilize users’ personal information to provide better services. While leveraging such data is not inherently bad, securely storing this information is critically important.
However, in a recent incident, it was reported that the email addresses of seven million OpenSea users were leaked in mid-2022. The email leak was first reported by a renowned media outlet, following information provided by a professional associated with SlowMist.
In an X post dated January 13, 2025, ‘23pads’ the executive at SlowMist quotes “ Remember the attack on the OpenSea mail service provider in [2022] that led to the leakage of emails? The leaked email addresses have now been fully publicized after multiple disseminations.”
Over the same event, ‘23pads’ told the reporting media outlet that the attack was carried out in June 2022, yet the data was recently made available for the ones committing scams and phishing.
The X post by the executive also notes that the list of leaked emails contained emails of crypto moguls such as the former Chief Executive Officer of Binance, Changpeng Zhao also known as CZ.
As per the available information, OpenSea first reported the leak of data on June 29, 2022, after it figured out that an employee of its email authentication platform had leaked the list of emails of OpenSea users to a third party/ outsider.
How to prevent the leak of personal information including Emails and others?
Leaking or stealing the personal information of users from a different platform is becoming quite common, it is worth noting that billions of people get phishing emails, calls, and text messages after these leakages.
In this internet era, keeping information secure is one of the toughest tasks, and by following some simple steps one can keep his or his personal information secure, avoiding scammers and phishers to access.
Because of the high risks of financial loss, identity theft, and fraud, it is especially important in the crypto space to prevent the leakage of personal information, including emails. Strong technical safeguards are necessary in this field.
Sensitive information and money can be kept safer from online threats by using cold storage. To avoid interception, all communications and data transfers should use end-to-end encryption.
To improve user security, blockchain platforms must also implement secure wallet management techniques like multi-signature functionality and hierarchical deterministic (HD) wallets.
Crypto market price updates
At the time of writing, the cryptocurrency market capitalization was $3.24 trillion with a decline of 1.87 percent while trading volume grew around 24 percent reaching $86.94 billion.
Until publishing, Bitcoin the pioneer of the cryptocurrency market was trading at $93,678 and at the same time trading below 20, and 50-day exponential moving averages and above 100 and 200-day EMA.
The intraday gainer’s list has been ruled by KuCoin Token trading at $11.23 with an addition of 3.41 percent and Raydium grew over 1.45 percent now trading at $4.45.
