SafePal Leaks Forty Thousand Customers

Here is another masterclass in irony, where hardware wallet maker SafePal exposed names, addresses, emails, and purchase records for nearly 40,000 crypto enthusiasts through a basic authorization blunder in an order-tracking plug-in. Customers expecting impenetrable digital vaults instead had their physical coordinates gifted to the web. Rectifying dodgy plug-in authorization flaws is the only dull way to keep buyers from discovering that secure hardware purchases do not protect basic shopping data.