TREE NEWS update: Foundation, the maker of the Passport wallet, has traced phishing emails sent to its users to a backend breach, CEO said attackers entered through a self-hosted app and likely reached the customer support inbox. The company initially pointed to compromised Cloudflare API keys before revising its assessment. Foundation has promised to publish a report on the incident.
Foundation Attributes Passport Wallet Phishing Emails to Backend Breach
The revision from compromised Cloudflare keys to a self-hosted app entry point matters because it shifts the exposure from a third-party provider to Foundation's own infrastructure — a harder problem to remediate and a signal that the customer support inbox is a live attack surface for wallet providers. This affects Passport users who received the phishing emails, and more broadly any self-custody wallet relying on support workflows that touch user data. Whether Foundation's promised report details the scope of inbox access, and whether other wallet makers audit similar self-hosted support tooling, are the open questions worth watching.
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