FTX customers, who have been grappling with issues since the exchange’s collapse last November, are now facing a new ordeal – a phishing email attack.
The attack targeted email addresses registered with FTX, resulting in the leakage of some customers’ personal data, including phone numbers, home addresses, and account balances.
Fortunately, sensitive information like crypto account passwords remained secure and were not compromised.
Since FTX’s shutdown, billions of dollars belonging to users have been locked up in the exchange, leading to anxiously awaited bankruptcy proceedings to recover these funds.
Scammers took advantage of this anxiety by promising to return funds to users, but with a condition – users had to connect a crypto wallet to their accounts.
FTX has issued a warning about this phishing attempt, cautioning users that it’s likely designed to drain their token holdings.
As a precaution, FTX has temporarily frozen affected user accounts within the customer claims portal.
Notably, this phishing attack follows closely on the heels of a SIM swap attack on Kroll, the claims agent appointed by FTX for its bankruptcy proceedings.
