Ledger Wallet Customer Data Leak Invokes Threats, Phishing Scams, User Allege...
The cryptocurrency hardware wallet firm Ledger was hacked last June and over a million emails were exposed, according to reports from the company at the time. Months later, the hackers who obtained the Ledger data emailed clients, sent texts to customers, and created phishing links for users to enter their seeds. One customer allegedly lost $50k and during the last week, the company has been getting inundated with complaints on social media. Last Summer’s Ledger Wallet Data Breach Leads to Phishing Scams The Ledger hackers who obtained roughly a million customer emails and possibly....
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Just recently, reports of the Ledger customer database breach being dumped on Raidforums for free has become a viral story among cryptocurrency proponents. Now customers are threatening to take legal action against the hardware wallet manufacturer, and one customer has complained of getting an email threatening him with a home invasion. The Ledger wallet customer database leak has caused a lot of anger toward the hardware wallet manufacturer from France. On December 20, 2020, the hackers dumped Ledger’s e-commerce customer database on a well known hacker forum. The dump contained the....
Just recently, the hardware wallet manufacturer Ledger has been dealing with a lot of criticism for the e-commerce customer data leak that took place last June. The data contained the emails of a million Ledger wallet customers, and thousands of clients had additional information leaked like phone numbers and residential addresses. Reports now detail that the hackers have dumped the Ledger leak data on the sharing marketplace Raidforums for free. Hackers Dump Ledger Wallet E-Commerce Customer Data on Raidforums One of the most topical conversations in the cryptocurrency space in the last....
A leak of crypto cold storage wallet manufacturer Ledger’s customer database has put over a quarter of a million Bitcoin and altcoin investors at serious risk. Some have had accounts drained, while others have experienced extreme threats of harm directed to their families and homes. The situation sheds a light on a serious issue plaguing […]
Ledger wallet users face mounting home invasion and other scareware threats as hacker dumps private customer information online. The hacker likely responsible for Ledger’s security breach in July recently dumped a large amount of data exposing the personal information of over 270,000 customers, including phone numbers and physical addresses. The leak also included 1 million emails of Ledger wallet owners and customers that were signed up to the company’s newsletter service.Amid the furor caused by the incident, Ledger says its focus is on improving its security infrastructure rather than....
After a major leak of email and personal information earlier this year, Ledger customers are experiencing a surge in phishing attempts. Phishing attempts and scams against Ledger wallet owners are on the increase with one such scam netting more than 1,150,000 XRP from its victims. The scam used a phishing email that directed users to a fake version of the Ledger website that substituted a homoglyph in the URL — in this case a letter that looked like the letter ‘e’ but wasn’t. On the fake site, victims were fooled into downloading malware posing as a security update which drained the....