Mailchimp slams the door on crypto content without warning
Mailchimp, the largest email marketing company globally, has suspended its services to crypto content creators, and several crypto firms have reported problems logging into their accounts since early this week.
Prominent crypto companies that have been banned include edge wallet, a provider of self-custodial crypto holding services, and Messari, a crypto research company facing the wrath of the company’s decision to suspend services.
“The Mailchimp account had been disabled.” tweeted Joely Garcia, the Edge Wallet community manager. Garcia learned of the incident when she tried to log into the company’s account.
Edge Wallet is not the only one, this morning Sam Richards said that the Ethereum Foundation’s account has been suspended.
“Add @Ethereum Foundation’s @EF_ESP to the list of customers @Mailchimp has robust. Anyone have good recommendations for email subscription services with solid API integrations? Or anyone who doesn’t pull the plug on paying customers without any notice or reason?” Sam Richards tweeted.
Mailchimp hit with a security breach
The shutdown comes months after Mailchimp was hit by a security breach that led to a phishing attack on a customer of a cryptocurrency wallet company, some of whom were then robbed of thousands of dollars worth of cryptocurrency. The suit claimed they were negligent in protecting customer information and slow to respond to the security breach, which allowed the cryptocurrency theft to succeed.
Mailchimp responds to cyber attacks
In response to the phishing allegations, Mailchimp said it was addressing the incident, according to a statement posted on its website.
“From the outset, we acted quickly to address the situation by limiting employee access to internal systems,” Mailchimp said. “Our findings show that this was a targeted incident focused on users in industries related to cryptocurrency and finance. All owners of affected accounts have been notified,” it announced on the website.
Although Mailchimp has not issued any statement regarding the suspension of the accounts of content creators, observers say it is a swift action to curb the breach by targeted crypto-hackers.
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