The email platform's security breach occurred due to a compromised employee account.
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.
The security breach occurred due to a compromised employee account, according to CoinGecko’s June 7 announcement:
