Ledger was involved in a data breach in July 2020 and now a hacker has leaked the data that was stolen 5 months ago.
Back in July this year, Hackread.com reported on a data breach involving Paris, France based hardware wallet provider Ledger. The incident took place on July 25th, 2020 in which attackers stole the personal data of customers and subscribers.
Ledger was quick to acknowledge the breach revealing that the stolen data contained email addresses full names, postal addresses, phone numbers, and details related to products ordered by customers.
Now, Hackread.com can confirm that a threat actor is claiming to have leaked the same Ledger database on an infamous hacker forum.
It is worth noting that the stolen database was already being sold on several dark web marketplace since it was stolen 5 months ago.
Hacker forum where the database has been leaked (Image: Hackread.com)
As for the latest leak; Hackread.com has seen the database, and according to our analysis, it seems to be legitimate. There are two text files in the leaked folder one belonging to Ledger customers and the other of its subscribers. The latter contains data of 272,854 users including:
Full namesCountryPostal addressesEmail addressesPhone numbers
The second text file contains the email addresses of 1,075,383 Ledger subscribers.
Screenshot from the leaked data (Image: Hackread.com)
The good news is that there are no passwords in the database however at the time of publishing this article, the leaked database was already available on different hacking forums including ..
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