Safepal wallet team announced that 39,798 customers that placed orders between March 2 2025 to 11 April 2026 have their order details exposed.
March 2, 2025, to April 11, 2026 - that’s 17 months, or nearly a year and a half. That is how long Safepal kept customer order information on file. Look, similar leaks have happened before, and some HW manufacturers managed to adapt by cutting their data retention period to 3 months (though even that isn't a complete fix). Why didn't this company do the same? They seem incapable of learning from other's mistakes. Can see the result for yourself: 39,798 customers. That number could have been lower. Cryptoindustry-wide problem is being exposed yet again. Why haven't HW manufacturers found a solution to eliminate this issue? Negligence? What’s at stake are cryptoassets - and potentially the health and lives of their customers. Do "sellers" care only about sales and profits, while user interests mean nothing? It’s the same "teething troubles" over and over again. Couldn't they have encrypted the data? It’s disappointing.
By the way, this implies that nearly 40,000 devices were sold over those 17 months (assuming the figure covers all sales, not just specific regions). That works out to around 2,300 units a month, doesn't it? Is that the scale of the company's sales?