CoinGecko confirms email provider data breach, over 23,000 phishing emails sent


Cryptocurrency data aggregator CoinGecko has confirmed a data breach suffered by its third-party email management platform GetResponse.

Following yesterday’s reports of a new wave of crypto airdrop scams, CoinGecko confirmed that GetResponse suffered a data breach on June 5, allowing attackers to export the contact information of over 1.9 million CoinGecko users.

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Source: CoinTelegraph


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