type: incident ยท created: 2026-08-18 ยท updated: 2026-08-18 ยท tags: [incident, cryptocurrency, hardware-wallet, data-breach, order-data, sector-retail] ยท confidence: high ยท affected_sectors: [retail, finance] ยท au_impact: true
SafePal Crypto Hardware Wallet Maker Confirms Breach Affecting Nearly 40,000 Customers
- Source: SafePal (vendor disclosure)
- Date: 2026-08-16
- Reliability: Tier 1/4 โ Official / First-party (vendor disclosure)
- Entity: SafePal (crypto hardware wallet manufacturer)
Summary
Crypto hardware wallet company SafePal confirmed a data breach, telling users that nearly 40,000 customers had information stolen during a recent security incident. The incident impacted people who placed orders between 2 March 2025 and 11 April 2026, affecting names, email addresses, shipping addresses, phone numbers and purchase details.
Key Facts
- ~40,000 customers affected (order data via a plug-in flaw)
- Flaw in the order-tracking function allowed unauthorised access to another customer's order information
- Incident remediated; wallets, seed phrases and private keys confirmed secure
- SafePal is the third hardware-wallet maker attacked in the last month (after Trezor and Coinkite)
Source
https://www.safepal.com/en/blog/security-update
Reliability
Tier 1 โ Official company disclosure; breach confirmed by the vendor.
Date
2026-08-16
Related Pages
- Eu Publishes Draft Cyber Resilience Act Standards For Product Vendors โ Supply-chain/standards context
- Nearly 750 000 Had Financial Info Ssns Leaked In South Carolina Loan Company Bre โ Financial-sector breach
Sources: raw/digests/Cyber-Digest-2026-08-18