CoinGecko faces a major data breach, impacting 1.9 million contacts

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CoinGecko, a crypto data aggregator, has disclosed a data breach related to a third-party service provider. The hackers infiltrated an employee’s GetResponse account, which is an email marketing platform, and illicitly acquired 1,916,596 contacts. They used an alternative GetResponse account to dispatch phishing emails to a total of 23,723 individuals in their contact list. CoinGecko and GetResponse promptly identified and halted the phishing operation, nevertheless, the hackers managed to get