Ledger has acknowledged that hackers also gained access to 9500 Phone numbers among other data.
In the world of cryptocurrencies, we have different types of wallets including hardware, desktop, mobile, and web ones. While the latter 3 can be grouped into the software category, the foremost hardware one is unique in that it requires a standalone device that functions as a wallet.
One vendor offering these happens to be Ledger – quite famous in the crypto world and trusted as well. However, as with even the most secure and responsible for companies, data breaches are only a matter of time.
See: Hackers use Github bot to steal $1,200 in ETH within 100 seconds
Such was the fate of Ledger too when recently the company has disclosed that it suffered a hack of which it was alerted on 14 July 2020 by a researcher through their bug bounty program.
Despite them immediately taking action and patching the flaw in a short period of time, only a few weeks later on the 25th of July, they found out it had been “further exploited” by the attackers.
The data gained access by attackers includes their e-commerce and marketing database which naturally due to its nature of order confirmations and marketing emails revealed the following records:
Email addresses – 1 million
Full names – 9500
Postal addresses – 9500
Phone numbers – 9500
Ordered products – 9500
Elaborating on their response, Ledger stated in a blog post that,
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