Trezor says ShipMonk kept 67,000 customer records it had certified as deleted
The records cover orders placed between November 2019 and August 2021, years past the 90-day deletion window Trezor advertises. Trezor says it held repeated written confirmation from ShipMonk that the data was gone.
The Watch · Security desk
What happened
- Trezor disclosed that a further 67,000 U.S. customers were caught in the breach at its shipping provider ShipMonk, on top of the 13,689 it reported last month.
- The exposed fields are names, email addresses, phone numbers, shipping addresses and order numbers, for orders placed between November 2019 and August 2021.
- Holborn attributes the breach to the ShinyHunters extortion gang, and ShipMonk has not acknowledged the incident publicly.
Why it matters
- What it limits constraint A written deletion assurance bought Trezor nothing operationally: the records survived roughly four years and nine months past the date its own policy said they would be gone, and the gap only surfaced when an attacker read them.
- What doesn't add up contradiction Trezor's first disclosure framed the loss as bounded by its 90-day retention policy. The second shows the policy bounded only Trezor's own systems, so any vendor breach scoped by reference to a retention rule should be read as provisional.
- Who's exposed exposure The people newly at risk are hardware wallet buyers whose home addresses are now matched to their orders, a targeting set for coercion and impersonation that cannot be reissued the way a credential can.
- What it sets up precedent If one Metabase zero-day yielded several downstream victims, the unit of compromise becomes the analytics tool a logistics provider runs, not the provider, and buyers who never chose that tool inherit the loss.
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Deletion was the only control that could have helped here. ShipMonk was breached through CVE-2026-72898, a SQL injection flaw in Metabase rated CVSS 10.0 and exploited as a zero-day [8]. There was no patch to apply that day and no window to beat. Whatever sat in that Metabase instance was reachable, and Holborn says what sat in it was Trezor customer order detail [12]. The size of this breach was therefore fixed before the exploit ran, by which records were still there.
Trezor's two disclosures now total 80,689 customers: 13,689 announced last month, 67,000 on Friday [13]. The first group falls inside Trezor's stated retention window, which it says is the shortest period covering delivery, returns and any refund or replacement [4][14]. The second does not. The newest orders in the exposed set date to August 2021, so under a 90-day policy the last of them should have been deleted or anonymised around November 2021; ShipMonk reported the intrusion on August 10, 2026, roughly four years and nine months later [18]. That makes 83 percent of Trezor's known exposure data that both parties had agreed in writing no longer existed [17].
Trezor says it repeatedly requested and received written assurance of deletion, in line with its contract and data policy [1]. That is where the record stops. Neither Trezor's statement nor Holborn's account says whether Trezor held audit or sampling rights over ShipMonk's systems, whether any confirmation was ever tested against a live query, or whether the confirmations were false when written or merely scoped to a system that was not the reporting copy. An attestation that names a dataset rather than the stores holding it is satisfied by deleting one of them. There was a prior signal: Trezor said the 1,947 customers whose exposure was limited to names, cities and email addresses may include older orders [16].
Holborn, an enterprise blockchain security firm, attributes the intrusion to the ShinyHunters extortion gang and says the same Metabase flaw was used against several of the platform's customers to steal data and extort [9][11]. Both points rest on Holborn alone. ShipMonk has said nothing publicly, and the account that it has secured the affected systems and improved its security carries no named attribution [15][10].
For the 67,000, the exposure is a name tied to a phone number, a shipping address and a hardware wallet order [3]. Trezor warns the data supports scam emails, fraudulent calls and letters, and potentially physical risk, and says it has notified affected customers directly [5]. The wallets themselves are unaffected [6]. Those addresses were current between 2019 and 2021, and the share still valid is now in an extortion crew's hands.
What to watch
- Whether ShipMonk acknowledges the incident publicly and names its other affected clients.
- Whether other Metabase customers disclose intrusions tied to CVE-2026-72898, which would corroborate Holborn's multi-victim account.
- Whether a third Trezor disclosure adds more records from outside the 90-day window, meaning the retained set is still being counted.
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- [1]
Trezor said that throughout its entire relationship with ShipMonk it repeatedly requested and received written assurance confirming deletion of the data, in line with its contract, data policy and past communications, and that it was very disappointed the data was not deleted in ShipMonk's systems.
- [2]
Trezor disclosed on Friday that another 67,000 customers in the U.S. were impacted by a breach at its shipping provider ShipMonk.
- [3]
The exposed information includes customer names, email addresses, phone numbers, shipping addresses and order numbers for orders placed between November 2019 and August 2021.
- [4]
The 67,000 figure is in addition to 13,689 customers Trezor disclosed last month as having had data fully or partially exposed; Trezor said at the time that the breach was limited during its 90-day data storage policy.
- [5]
Trezor said the leaked information could be used for scam emails, fraudulent calls or letters, and could potentially expose affected individuals to physical security risks, and said it has notified affected customers directly.
- [6]
Trezor said the breach does not affect the security of the company's hardware wallets.
- [7]
Trezor said ShipMonk informed it of a breach on August 10, 2026, following unauthorized access to ShipMonk's systems.
- [8]
The break-in involved zero-day exploitation of CVE-2026-72898, a critical SQL injection flaw in Metabase with a CVSS score of 10.0.
- [9]
According to enterprise blockchain security firm Holborn, the ShinyHunters extortion gang is said to be behind the breach.
- [10]
ShipMonk is said to have secured the affected systems and improved its security after the break-in.
- [11]
Holborn said that by finding and exploiting the SQL injection flaw in Metabase the attackers were able to exploit several of its customers, stealing sensitive data and extorting the organization.
- [12]
Holborn said that in Trezor's case the incident meant exposure of customer order details stored in a Metabase instance by ShipMonk.
- [13]
Trezor's disclosures to date cover 80,689 customers in total.
- [14]
Trezor said it deletes or anonymizes all customer data related to a purchase on its eShop after 90 days, chosen as the shortest window that still covers the whole life of an order including delivery, returns and any refund or replacement.
- [15]
ShipMonk has yet to acknowledge the incident publicly.
- [16]
Trezor said the 1,947 customers whose exposure was limited only to names, cities and email addresses, excluding shipping addresses, may include older orders.
- [17]
The records ShipMonk had certified as deleted account for about 83 percent of Trezor's total disclosed exposure.
- [18]
The newest orders in the exposed set, from August 2021, should have been deleted or anonymised around November 2021 under Trezor's 90-day policy, roughly four years and nine months before ShipMonk reported the intrusion on August 10, 2026.
Sources
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