With violent crypto home invasions surging, a data breach exposing over 10,000 Trezor owners puts physical safety on the line

On Aug. 13, Trezor said a breach at the fulfillment provider ShipMonk exposed customer data for about 13,689 hardware wallet buyers, including the delivery addresses of 11,742 people.The larger group had their names, email addresses, phone numbers, and shipping addresses exposed, while another 1,947 customers had names, cities, and email addresses compromised. ShipMonk handled the information to fulfill and deliver Trezor orders.Trezor said its own systems, devices, and services were not breached and that customer wallets remain secure. The exposure instead creates a different risk: linking identifiable people and, in most cases, their home addresses to the purchase of a hardware wallet designed to secure crypto holdings.ShipMonk notified Trezor on Aug. 10 that an unauthorized actor had accessed systems containing customer information, according to the company's Aug. 13 disclosure.The 11,742 fully exposed records covered orders received between May 10 and Aug. 8. The additional 1,947 records may include older purchases, and Trezor said it was still working with ShipMonk to determine why those records remained available.Trezor said its fulfillment partners are generally required to ...