Inside The Scam: Victims Of Ledger Hack Are Receiving Fake Hardware Wallets
A new attack vector following the Ledger data breach of July 2020 involves sending convincing but fake hardware wallets to victims.Victims of a hack of customer data held by bitcoin hardware wallet provider Ledger, which happened almost a year ago, are still apparently being targeted by scammers. Over 1 million victims of the hack had their details exposed, including their names, phone numbers and email addresses. And more than 200,000 people also had their home addresses breached. Now, some of the victims appear to be receiving counterfeit hardware wallets through the mail. And a recent....
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Ledger customers are receiving fake wallets by mail to steal their cryptocurrency. A user in Reddit reported receiving a suspicious package that claimed to be mailed by Ledger. The package included a letter stating the user needed to substitute the current wallet for safety reasons. Ledger has been the source of several leaks of information of customer data. Criminals are presumably using this information to organize these schemes. Scammers Are Mailing Fake Wallets to Ledger Customers Scammers are reportedly mailing fake hardware wallets to Ledger customers to steal their private seeds.....
Ledger customers have reported receiving fake replacement devices in the mail, designed to phish private security information. The consequences of Ledger's major data breach continue to be felt almost a year later. One contributor to the r/ledgerwallet forum on Reddit, writing under the tag “u/jjrand” and self-identified as one of those affected by the breach, has posted images of what appears to be a fake Ledger Nano X wallet received in the mail.Wrapped in seemingly authentic packaging, the device nonetheless included several tell-tale signs that sparked the contributor's suspicion. Most....
Participants at various Bitcoin and Blockchain conferences have been receiving fraudulent Bitcoin hardware wallets imitating legitimate products like Trezor and Ledger to steal user’s funds. Andrew Desantis, CEO at DeSantis Inc and former 21 Inc technology editor, revealed that participants at the New York Bitcoin conference in 2015 were given free hardware wallets designed specifically to steal user’s funds and Bitcoin. As seen below, the fake hardware wallets did not have proper branding yet many participants who have not come across hardware wallets were convinced they were legitimate....
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Since hardware wallet devices first came to pass in the Bitcoin ecosystem, the Trezor has been the one wallet to rule them all. Added security measures, such as the ability to visually confirm the correct receiving address on the device’s display, were always the key selling point of the Trezor, but Ledger may have now caught up to its rival with the Nano S. While the Nano S does include a screen for verifying the receiving address before sending a transaction, that’s only part of the reason why it is a compelling alternative to the Trezor. The Nano S also has a lower price point ($65....