{"id":194015,"date":"2023-09-22T13:39:52","date_gmt":"2023-09-22T13:39:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tokenstalk.info\/?p=194015"},"modified":"2023-09-22T13:39:52","modified_gmt":"2023-09-22T13:39:52","slug":"nansen-third-party-vendor-suffers-security-breach-user-data-affected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tokenstalk.info\/crypto\/nansen-third-party-vendor-suffers-security-breach-user-data-affected\/","title":{"rendered":"Nansen third-party vendor suffers security breach, user data affected"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prominent crypto and blockchain analytics company Nansen posted on social media platform X (formerly Twitter) that one of its third-party vendors suffered a security breach affecting 6.8% of its users.<\/p>\n<p>According to Nansen, the breach gave hackers access to admin rights for an account used to \u201cprovision customer access\u201d to its platform.<\/p>\n<p>Without directly naming the company affected, it said this vendor is \u201can established company that is used by many Fortune 500 companies,\u201d along with other companies in the industry, to manage data.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The users affected by the breach reportedly had their email addresses exposed, along with some password hashes, and some had their blockchain addresses compromised. <\/p>\n<p>Nansen said it has identified and informed those affected and asked all to change their passwords. It also clarified that wallet funds were unaffected by the event.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Related: <\/em><\/strong><strong><em>PayPal\u2019s PYUSD struggles with early adoption \u2014 Nansen<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Nansen is a prominent resource in the crypto space and provides on-chain analytics about many of the industry\u2019s major players.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In a recent interview with Cointelegraph, Nansen CEO Alex Svanevik said that he believes in the future, a protocol will exist that creates a balance between blockchain transparency and user privacy and is compliant with regulators.<\/p>\n<p>In May, the company was among many suffering the effects of the ongoing bear market,\u00a0laying off around 30% of its workforce.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Magazine: <\/em><\/strong><strong><em>How to protect your crypto in a volatile market: Bitcoin OGs and experts weigh in<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/news\/nansen-third-party-vendor-suffers-security-breach-affects-user-data\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prominent crypto and blockchain analytics company Nansen posted on social media platform X (formerly Twitter)&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":194014,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8 - 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