The email marketing platform Mailchimp appears to have suspended its services to crypto content creators. Platforms associated with crypto news, content or related services started to have issues logging into accounts, followed by notices of service interruptions that began surfacing this week.
Crypto-associated accounts such as the Edge wallet, a provider of self-custody crypto holding services, and Messari, a crypto research company, were among some of the affected.
Early this morning, Sam Richards, at the Ethereum Foundation Tweeted that the Ethereum Foundation Ecosystem Support Program is likewise facing suspension.
Add @Ethereum Foundation's @EF_ESP to the list of customers @Mailchimp has rugged.Anyone have good recommendations for email subscription services with solid API integrations? Or any that don't pull the plug on paying customers without any notification or justification? https://t.co/Cjg2kkqwoT
Cory Klippsten of Swan Private, a Bitcoin investment advisory firm for corporations and high net worth individuals, also Tweeted about the incident. Klippensten called to other marketing agencies in the industry to “step up” in light of this incident and others.
After Hubspot, Klaviyo, Twilio, and Mailchimp all getting taken bc of their crypto clients, it's time for the entire marketing communications / CRM software industry to step up their security BIG time.And yes, we've been taking additional measures. See @skwp thread above.
Indeed Mailchimp, the service previously used for the Cointelegraph newsletter, sent Cointelegraph a notice of service interruption this past Monday as well.
Though Mailchimp has responded in the time since Cointelegraph’s inquiry, no direct answer to our questions was provided. It later
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