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SafePal's leaked order book is a target list: 39,798 wallet buyers, with addresses

No seed phrases were touched. What was taken is names, phone numbers and shipping addresses for people known to own a hardware wallet, now advertised on a crime forum.

The Watch · Security desk

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What happened

  • Cryptocurrency hardware wallet provider SafePal is warning of a data breach affecting about 39,798 customers after a flaw was exploited to steal customer order information, and a threat actor is now claiming to be selling the stolen data.
  • SafePal says the breach impacts customers who placed orders between March 2, 2025, and April 11, 2026, exposing their names, email addresses, shipping addresses, phone numbers, and purchase information.
  • SafePal says the breach did not expose customers' wallet seed phrases, private keys, passwords, bank account information, payment card numbers, government-issued identification numbers, or other credentials.
  • "No evidence has been found that the incident itself compromised access to SafePal wallets or funds," SafePal said in a security advisory published Sunday.
  • SafePal says it notified all impacted customers via email on August 16 with the subject "[Important] Your SafePal Order Information Has Been Affected."

Why it matters

Hardware wallet vendor SafePal says an authorization flaw in the order-tracking function of an e-commerce plug-in was exploited to steal order records for roughly 39,798 customers, and a threat actor is now advertising that data for sale on a cybercrime forum [1][14][3]. No seed phrases, private keys, passwords, card numbers or government ID numbers were exposed [4], which is the least interesting part of this incident: what did leak is names, email addresses, phone numbers, shipping addresses and purchase details for people confirmed to have bought a device for storing cryptocurrency [2].

That combination is not a privacy problem in the abstract. Strip out the credentials and what remains is a location and a phone number attached to a verified crypto holder [26]. SafePal's own advisory says the data could be used for targeted phishing and social engineering, and warns customers to expect approaches about firmware upgrades, product returns, refunds and legal investigations [11][16]. Those approaches started well before disclosure: customers reported SafePal-branded phishing emails and phone calls as early as May [11]. One customer posted on X that they received both an email and a call from someone claiming to be an employee, with the email asserting that a vulnerability had been found in the SafePal X1 and that a firmware update was needed [18]. The company says it has taken down more than 30 fraudulent sites and phishing links tied to the incident [17].

The exposure window is wide. Affected orders run from March 2, 2025 to April 11, 2026 [2], about thirteen months of customer records [22]. Part of that is a second failure: SafePal found a configuration error that stopped its data-cleanup process from working correctly between September 2025 and April 2026, roughly seven months during which records that should have aged out stayed live [20][24]. Old orders that no longer needed to exist are the ones now for sale.

The timeline is not flattering either. SafePal says it first received a report consistent with the incident in early May 2026 and treated it as an isolated case, citing an e-commerce stack with multiple interconnected components, external integrations and third-party logistics partners that made it hard to rule out other explanations [12][13]. It began a full review and rebuild of order processing in July, found the plug-in flaw, fixed it, and brought in an outside security firm to validate the fix [14][15]. Customers were emailed on August 16 [8], roughly three months after the first report landed [23].

There is a sharper problem with the remediation. SafePal published a verification tool that lets a customer enter an order number and shipping country to check whether that order was stolen [10]. The seller on the forum is offering prospective buyers order IDs and shipping countries precisely so they can run them through that tool as proof the goods are real [5]. A victim-notification mechanism is doubling as a free authenticity oracle for the market in the stolen data [25]. BleepingComputer says it has not independently verified that the seller holds the data [9].

Watch whether SafePal narrows or removes the lookup, and whether phishing shifts from firmware-update lures to pretexts that use the shipping address directly. SafePal says exposed customers do not need to replace their hardware wallets [19]; the device is not the asset at risk here, the customer list is.

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  1. [1]

    Cryptocurrency hardware wallet provider SafePal is warning of a data breach affecting about 39,798 customers after a flaw was exploited to steal customer order information, and a threat actor is now claiming to be selling the stolen data.

    Reported SupportedView cited source
  2. [2]

    SafePal says the breach impacts customers who placed orders between March 2, 2025, and April 11, 2026, exposing their names, email addresses, shipping addresses, phone numbers, and purchase information.

    Reported SupportedView cited source
  3. [3]

    A threat actor claims to be selling the stolen SafePal customer data on a cybercrime forum; as spotted by DarkWebInformer, the seller referenced the same affected order period and approximately 39,798 customers disclosed by SafePal.

    Reported SupportedView cited source
  4. [4]

    SafePal says the breach did not expose customers' wallet seed phrases, private keys, passwords, bank account information, payment card numbers, government-issued identification numbers, or other credentials.

    Reported SupportedView cited source
  5. [5]

    For potential buyers, the threat actor is willing to share order ID and shipping country information from stolen orders, which can be confirmed on SafePal's online verification tool as proof that the sale is legitimate.

    Reported SupportedView cited source
  6. [6]

    "No evidence has been found that the incident itself compromised access to SafePal wallets or funds," SafePal said in a security advisory published Sunday.

    Reported SupportedView cited source
  7. [7]

    "Not interested in low balls , please come correct and with a good price or do not message me at all," reads the forum post.

    Reported SupportedView cited source
  8. [8]

    SafePal says it notified all impacted customers via email on August 16 with the subject "[Important] Your SafePal Order Information Has Been Affected."

    Reported SupportedView cited source
  9. [9]

    BleepingComputer has not independently verified that the threat actor possesses the stolen data.

    Reported SupportedView cited source
  10. [10]

    SafePal launched an online verification tool that lets customers enter their order number and shipping country to determine whether the details of that order were stolen.

    Reported SupportedView cited source
  11. [11]

    The company warns that the stolen information could be used to conduct targeted phishing and other social engineering attacks, with customers reporting SafePal phishing emails and phone calls as early as May.

    Reported SupportedView cited source
  12. [12]

    SafePal says it first received a report consistent with the incident in early May 2026, which it initially treated as an isolated case before escalating it into a formal security investigation and introducing additional protections.

    Reported SupportedView cited source
  13. [13]

    SafePal advisory: "As our e-commerce system involves multiple interconnected components and external integrations, as well as third-party logistics partners, we could not immediately rule out several possible explanations."

    Reported SupportedView cited source
  14. [14]

    In July, SafePal began what it described as a "full review and rebuild" of its order-processing system and discovered an authorization flaw in the order-tracking function of a plug-in that allowed unauthorized access to another customer's order information; it determined a threat actor exploited the flaw to steal order information for approximately 39,798 customers.

    Reported SupportedView cited source
  15. [15]

    SafePal says it fixed the vulnerability and implemented additional security measures, and is working with a third-party security firm to validate the fix and conduct a broader review of its order-processing systems.

    Reported SupportedView cited source
  16. [16]

    SafePal warns customers to watch for targeted phishing emails and phone calls about firmware upgrades, product returns, refunds, or legal investigations.

    Reported SupportedView cited source
  17. [17]

    The company says it has already taken down more than 30 fraudulent websites and phishing links tied to this incident.

    Reported SupportedView cited source
  18. [18]

    A customer posted on X that they received a SafePal phishing email and a phone call from someone claiming to be a company employee in May; the phishing email claimed a security vulnerability had been discovered in the SafePal X1 hardware wallet and that a firmware update was required.

    Reported SupportedView cited source
  19. [19]

    SafePal says customers whose order information was exposed do not need to replace their hardware wallets.

    Reported SupportedView cited source
  20. [20]

    SafePal discovered a separate configuration error that caused a data-cleanup process to stop functioning correctly between September 2025 and April 2026, resulting in order data being retained as far back as March 2025.

    Reported SupportedView cited source
  21. [21]

    For affected orders, SafePal says it has purged personal data from active e-commerce servers, although it is retaining an encrypted offline copy for potential law-enforcement investigations.

    Reported SupportedView cited source
  22. [22]

    The exposed order window covers about thirteen months of customer orders.

    Derived Supported
  23. [23]

    About three months passed between SafePal's first report consistent with the incident and its notification of affected customers.

    Derived Supported
  24. [24]

    The broken data-cleanup process went uncorrected for roughly seven months.

    Derived Supported
  25. [25]

    SafePal's customer-facing verification tool also serves as an authenticity check for buyers of the stolen data, because the seller supplies order IDs and shipping countries that can be validated through it.

    Derived Supported
  26. [26]

    Because the leaked fields include name, phone number, shipping address and purchase information but no credentials, the data set functions as a list of confirmed hardware-wallet purchasers with their physical locations and contact numbers.

    Derived Supported

Sources

8 independent publishers whose own reporting we read for this story.

  1. bleepingcomputer.com

    1 article · August 16, 2026

    SafePal data breach impacts 39,798 customers, stolen info for sale
  2. helpnetsecurity.com

    1 article · August 17, 2026

    SafePal breach affects 39,798 customers, data allegedly for sale
  3. infosecurity-magazine.com

    1 article · August 17, 2026

    SafePal Data Breach Hits Tens of Thousands of Customers
  4. scworld.com

    1 article · August 17, 2026

    SafePal warns of data breach affecting nearly 40,000 customers
  5. securityaffairs.com

    1 article · August 17, 2026

    SafePal Says 39,798 Customers Hit by Data Breach
  6. securityweek.com

    2 articles · August 18, 2026

    40,000 Impacted by SafePal Data Breach
  7. thehackernews.com

    2 articles · August 18, 2026

    SafePal Hardware Wallet Maker Says Flaw Exposed Data of Nearly 40,000 Customers
  8. therecord.media

    1 article · August 17, 2026

    SafePal latest crypto hardware wallet maker affected by breach, with nearly 40,000 impacted

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