Just got this email which looks like a phishing attempt.
Beware.
“We’re thrilled to announce the launch of our Early Adopter Rewards Program, designed to show our appreciation for your incredible support and dedication to decentralized cloud storage. Your contributions, whether you were with us from the start or have helped shape the Storj network through storage provisioning, development, or advocacy, have been absolutely essential in building what Storj is today.”
I would strongly advise against clicking any links in any incoming, let alone, clearly spam/phishing/scam email messages. The best you can do is move it to the junk folder, to help improve spam detection, and do nothing else.
How are they able to get your mail addresses? Are you posting them somewhere, where you can get linked to StorJ? This is a targeted phishing attempt and not a random wide spread one. So they have to somehow connect your mail with StorJ.
Even my mail isn’t that hard to find (there was even a person that mailed me to ask a technical question ) and I never received a spam mail
Why would they gain Emails through the X hack? X doesn’t have any access to any email of any storage node operator. I can only guess that their username is linked to their mail public anywhere and the scammers found it. Or maybe got it via social engineering
I don’t think that any hack would be responsible of this. If this would be the case, then every node operator would have received this mail, which is not the case. So StorJ is (almost) safe from their side
Why are you jumping on me like I’m the bad guy? There was no explanation about X hack, now node operators are getting phising emails… without any official info, we can imagine all sorts of scenarious. I said “maybe”, as a possible scenario. Not a certain one!
I didn’t want to be mean to you, personally I would have preferred an argument not just speculation. Maybe they wrote people with wrong intent, or something else. But I don’t know if you can remove / delete things on X permanently (especially private chats). But it would be interesting how they got access to X and if something else got compromised. And if they took action against it, so it can happen again.
You don’t have to hang someone publicly for making an error - we are all human and make mistakes. The only thing we can do is try to prevent such things in the future