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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

Sources: raw/digests/Cyber-Digest-2026-08-18