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Trezor Reveals Another Data Breach After Scammers Target Marketing Platform
Trezor has warned that a data breach at the third-party marketing platform it uses for sending newsletters is leading criminals to target customers with phishing attacks.
The top hardware wallet manufacturer said Wednesday that an unauthorized actor got access to Brevo’s system and sent emails to 347,000 Trezor customers. Brevo is a platform businesses use to send customer communications.
Scammers managed to use Trezor’s domain name to send the email, making the phishing attempt all the more believable. The email contained a malicious link asking users to download an app and enter their wallet backup.
The news comes after Trezor last month announced that data from 11,742 customers had been exposed after its third-party fulfillment partner, ShipMonk, was targeted.
It then said last week that an additional 67,000 U.S. customers had their names, emails, phone numbers, shipping addresses and order numbers leaked in the breach.
“We took down the domain at the DNS level within 20 minutes, preventing the link from working for anyone else and limiting access to 2,500 people who had clicked it before we took it down,” Trezor said on Wednesday.
“These addresses might be potentially used for other phishing attacks in the future. No other Trezor system was touched,” Trezor added.
“We have suspended the Brevo account to stop further email distribution.”
Trezor reminded users that it never asks customers to ask for their wallet backups.
Criminals have been targeting data this year, with scammers getting hold of customer information via crypto wallet Ledger’s payment processor Global-e to send phishing emails.
Crypto wallet provider SafePal last month also announced a data breach that involved unauthorized access to about 39,798 customers’ order information, including personal details such as names, addresses and purchase data.
This post Trezor Reveals Another Data Breach After Scammers Target Marketing Platform first appeared on Bitcoin Magazine and is written by Mathew Di Salvo.
