Mailchimp Halted Its Services For Crypto Content Creators Without Pre-Information

The MailChimp emailing marketing service provider was acquired by Intuit last year.

Mailchimp, an email marketing ecosystem, halted its services for crypto content developers. Interfaces related to crypto news, content, or related services started to have issues logging into accounts, followed by a notice of service interruptions that began appearing this week.

Some affected were crypto-associated accounts such as the edge wallet, a self-custody crypto holding services provider, and messari, a crypto research company.

On 12 August, Sam Richards, an official at Ethereum, expressed his views on Twitter and quoted 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
— samrichards.eth (@samonchain) August 12, 2022

Swan Private is a Bitcoin investment advisory firm for corporations and high-net-worth individuals. The Chief executive officer of Swan Private extended his views that other industry marketing agencies “step up” in light of this incident and others.

You know we plan, and work our a**es off. Swan security is TIGHT.
There's no in-house solution for decent email marketing. These are huge co's w complex functionality. Best u can do is limit what u share w them. Ours just first name, email, and IP loc (center of city, state).
— Cory Klippsten (@coryklippsten) August 12, 2022

Last year, financial services giant Intuit acquired the Mailchimp emailing marketing service provider.

It is believed that this is not the first time Mailchimp has halted its services, but the company followed the same procedure back in 2018. And in the same year, Facebook stopped all crypto-related advertisements on their ecosystem because of breaching the company’s security guidelines.

In the first quarter of 2022, The Coin Republic reported that Mailchimp Insider targeted Trezor crypto wallets in a scam. Trezor is an equipment crypto wallet supplier, meaning anybody can utilize Trezor to put their crypto into cold capacity. Putting crypto in chilly capacity takes it disconnected; typically, this is to get it from digital robbery.

The wallet supplier gives clients a recuperation seed of 12 and 24 words that permits them to recuperate the wallet’s substance assuming their actual gadget is lost or taken. Nonetheless, should an aggressor find this seed, they can get close enough to the wallet (and the crypto possessions) without requiring the gadget.

Source: https://www.thecoinrepublic.com/2022/08/13/mailchimp-halted-its-services-for-crypto-content-creators-without-pre-information/