Industry News: ESG5

The Target: Popular hardware cryptocurrency wallet vendor Trezor

The Take: A subset of 66,000 users who have interacted with Trezor Support since December 2021 may have had their names or usernames, and email addresses exposed to an unauthorized party.

The Vector: Trezor has already confirmed 41 cases where exposed data has been exploited, with the attackers approaching users to trick them into giving away their recovery seeds - a string of words that contain all the information required for gaining access to a wallet.

As phishing actors continue to explore every potential abuse opportunity on legitimate service providers, novel security gaps constantly threaten to expose users to severe risks. It is essential not to rely solely on email protection solutions, and also scrutinize every email that lands on your inbox, look for inconsistencies, and double-check all claims made in those messages.

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