{"id":84885,"date":"2023-09-22T15:00:07","date_gmt":"2023-09-22T12:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=84885"},"modified":"2025-09-12T20:02:17","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T17:02:17","slug":"nansen-warns-of-a-user-data-leak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/nansen-warns-of-a-user-data-leak\/","title":{"rendered":"Nansen warns of a user-data leak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Emails, password hashes, and some wallet addresses belonging to 6.8% of Nansen&#8217;s platform users were exposed publicly.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">? Important update from us at Nansen. Please take a moment to read this. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/syKE0sNnC6\">pic.twitter.com\/syKE0sNnC6<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Nansen ? (@nansen_ai) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nansen_ai\/status\/1705137387838574904?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 22, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>According to the statement, the breach occurred due to the compromise of a third-party data provider. The attacker seized the administrator panel through which account permissions were configured, the company said.<\/p>\n<p>Nansen did not name the third party, but urged the responsible party to publicly disclose information about the issue. The firm noted that many Fortune 500 companies rely on services from this provider.<\/p>\n<p>Users were advised to change their passwords and beware of phishing emails.<\/p>\n<p>The Nansen team is currently conducting an investigation. Unauthorised access to the service has been temporarily suspended.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, the data breach was <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/ftx-warns-of-user-data-leak\">reported<\/a> by the collapsed exchange FTX. Non-confidential information of some clients was obtained through restructuring agent Kroll.<\/p>\n<p>In August, data from 100,000 X users who linked their account to the <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/what-is-web3\">Web3<\/a>-social network Friend.Tech <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/friend-tech-data-leak-exposes-data-of-101183-x-users\">were exposed<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Emails, password hashes, and some wallet addresses belonging to 6.8% of Nansen&#8217;s platform users were exposed publicly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":84886,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1188,1648],"class_list":["post-84885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-data-breach","tag-nansen"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"18","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84885"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84885\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84887,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84885\/revisions\/84887"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}