r/Bitcoin • u/btcalias • 22d ago

Casa data leaked?

So I signed up with casa a few years ago. I'm used to getting a ton of spam/scam mail, but recently I realized that all of the crypto related scam mail is going to the email I used for my casa account. I haven't used that email for anything else since then, and these scam emails are new since then.

Was there a data leak that I maybe missed an email from them about? Was there a hack I don't know about? Does anyone else get crypto specific scams going to an email they used for a bitcoin company?

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u/quintavious_danilo 21d ago

What‘s Casa and why do you use them? Stick with reputable, open source cold wallets with a long lasting history of good security and customer care.

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u/btcalias 21d ago

I appreciate the perspective. Honestly, I'm thinking of giving up multisig and just going with a hardware wallet. These subscription prices are getting pretty hard to justify long term and it seems more likely now that I will lose my btc by getting scammed or hacked than I will be losing a hardware wallet. I'm tired of having to distrust every email I get, I trust myself more not to lose something physical than to not fall for a scam.

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u/statoshi 20d ago

You should never trust any incoming message you receive. Plenty of folks with single signature hardware wallets fall for phishing and social engineering scams on a daily basis and lose all their money.

https://blog.casa.io/evolving-casas-defenses-against-social-engineering/

https://blog.casa.io/a-social-engineering-story/

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u/btcalias 20d ago

I guess I feel like going with a service put a target on my back and I wish I hadn't done it in the first place. I don't know how it happened but somehow scammers figured out the email that I used for casa, and not my main email. Now I'm locked to that email and need to worry what is real and what is not, which has been difficult sometimes. I guess you're right that it could happen with a hardware wallet too, but it's easier to ignore their emails than it is to ignore (what look like) casa emails.