Doxxed Ledger users in danger of physical harm

Ledger hardware wallet users might be in danger of physical attacks with their addresses part of the user data dump by suspected hackers.

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Ledger data leak leaves crypto community furious, here’s what to do next

Ledger, the popular hardware wallet, said today that data belonging to over 1 million customers was leaked on a hacker forum. The post Ledger data leak leaves crypto community furious, here’s what to do next appeared first on CryptoSlate.

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Ledger Wallet Data Leakage Victim Gets Blackmailed Over Their Crypto Holdings: Reddit

Whale Panda has shared a Reddit post, saying that a Ledger data leak victim has now become a victim of blackmail; other Redditors admit receiving similar messages

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Ledger Breach Vastly Underestimated, 270,000 Clients Data Leaked

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Massive Ledger Data Leak Increases SIM Swapping Threat

Hardware wallet manufacturer Ledger has suffered another massive data breach for the second time this year. The exposure of thousands of clients’ personal information has increased the threat of SIM swapping as an attack vector.

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Ledger Wallet Data Leak Dumped on Raidforums for Free, Company Regrets the Situation

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.

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Why Ledger Kept All That Customer Data in the First Place

Sunday’s dump of customer emails and addresses serves as a sobering reminder that even a maker of hardware crypto wallets can become a data honeypot.

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Ledger's database with 270k physical addresses, 1M emails leaked on Raidforms

A database from hardware wallet company Ledger was leaked earlier today. The leaked data, which consists of over 270,000 physical addresses and phone numbers along with a million email addresses, was The post Ledger's database with 270k physical addresses, 1M emails leaked on Raidforms appeared first on AMBCrypto.

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Ledger users threaten legal action after hacker dumps personal data

A cybersecurity expert claimed the affected users would be targeted online and in person now that their personal information had been made public.

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Ledger Wallet Customer Data Leak Invokes Threats, Phishing Scams, User Allegedly Loses Life Savings

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.

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Hedera Hashgraph Gets Adopted by Top Disaster Prevention Platform

Hala Systems has integrated Hedera Hashgraph’s distributed ledger technology (DLT) into its conflicts and natural disasters early warning system dubbed ‘Sentry. ’ The team expects Hedera’s DLT solution to further boost the immutability and authenticity of data in its systems, according to reports on November 18, 2020.

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Aerospace Defense Firm Thales Adopts Blockchain Technology for NATO Compliance

The adoption of blockchain in the defense industry has taken another leap forward with Thales utilizing the novel tech in complying with NATO standards. From identity management to secure data sharing several countries are deploying decentralized ledger technology (DLT) in their defense programs.

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Ledger’s recent security audit was unconnected to their data breach in June

It seems the review was already in process before the attack ever occured.

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Honeywell Aerospace Upgrades Blockchain Solution for Easier Information Access

Honeywell Aerospace, a leading manufacturer of aircraft engines and parts, has upgraded its existing distributed ledger technology (DLT) solution to enable faster and more seamless data retrieval from its database, according to reports on August 6, 2020.

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Ledger vulnerability: Is it time to look for a new hardware wallet?

In less than two weeks, Ledger has suffered a data breach and has a new vulnerability. The latter is a bug that allows the hacker to spend Bitcoins while the user spends altcoins. The vulnerability waThe post Ledger vulnerability: Is it time to look for a new hardware wallet? appeared first on AMBCrypto.

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Data Breach at Popular Hardware Crypto Wallet Ledger Affects Million; Trezor Fires Shots

Popular crypto hardware wallet Ledger reported the leak of 1 million email addresses and 9,500 detailed personal information of its customers. Our data show that 1M email addresses and 9500 detailed personal information leaked.

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Trezor Takes a Shot at Ledger After the Hack

Crypto wallet provider Trezor shares that they delete all sensitive data from their customers’ orders every 90 days.

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Bitcoin Wallet Ledger Suffers Data Breach That Exposed Private Data Of 1 Million Users

Cryptocurrency hardware provider Ledger experienced a data leak that led to personal details of customers being compromised. User funds are, however, safe. Details Of The Ledger Data Leak In a blog post on July 29, Ledger revealed that its e-commerce and marketing database was hacked between June and July, leaking one million email IDs and […]

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Crypto Hardware Wallet Company Ledger Suffers Data Breach, 1M Customer Details Exposed

Major cryptocurrency hard wallet company Ledger revealed that the platform suffered a data breach causing customers details to be compromised.   Customer Funds Unaffected By Breach The company made the announcement via a blog post on Wednesday (July 29, 2020).

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Crypto Wallet Maker Ledger Loses 1M Email Addresses in Data Theft

An unknown hacker gained access to the wallet maker's marketing database, stealing a million email addresses as well as personal information for 9,000 customers.

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Data Breach at Crypto Wallet Firm Ledger Exposes User's Personal Info

Hardware wallet provider Ledger said its marketing database was breached between June and July.

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Ledger Suffers Data Breach, Hardware Wallets Not at Risk

Top hardware wallet Ledger revealed that a breach occurred in its customer information database, and email IDs for close to a million customers have been stolen. User funds are safe,...

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Addressing the July 2020 e-commerce and marketing data breach — A Message From Ledger’s Leadership

What happened On the 14th of July 2020, a researcher participating in our bounty program made us aware of a potential data breach on the Ledger website. We immediately fixed this breach after receiving the researcher’s report and underwent an internal investigation.

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IOTA Collaborates with University of Oslo’s Department of Informatics to Accelerate Tangle Research

According to a recent announcement, IOTA (MIOTA), a German open-source distributed ledger technology (DLT) protocol focused on the Internet of Things (IoT) and the new data economy has collaborated with the Department of Informatics at the University of Oslo (UiO) to research Digital Trust and the Tangle.

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China’s Blockchain Service Network Integrates Chainlink’s (LINK) Data Oracles

According to a press release issued on June 23, 2020, China’s Blockchain Service Network (BSN) has joined forces with Chainlink (LINK) to tap the latter’s oracle service into its ecosystem. China’s BSN Embraces Chainlink China’s newly launched distributed ledger technology (DLT) initiative dubbed BSN has integrated Chainlink’s oracle functionality to its network.

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Our Ecommerce Database Has Not Been Hacked

On Sunday an unknown hacker claimed that he was in possession of leaked databases from Ledger, Trezor and Keepkey’s ecommerce platforms.   After a thorough investigation from our data and security team and based on the information at hand, we can confirm this leak doesn’t match our database.

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Trezor and Ledger “investigating claims” that hacker is selling stolen data

Hardware wallet providers — Trezor and Ledger — have said their security teams are investigating claims that a hacker has stolen information from their databases, and is now selling customer data online.

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Hacker Attempts to Sell Data Allegedly Tied to Ledger, Trezor, Bnktothefuture Customers

According to an online monitoring web portal called, Under the Breach, a hacker is purportedly trying to sell customer information that stems from companies like Keepkey, Trezor, Ledger, and even the investment platform Bnktothefuture.

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Toyota Announces Blockchain Lab for Enhanced Data Management

Automobile giant Toyota has revealed that it has been in the process of setting up a blockchain lab since April 2019. Various Toyota Group companies will allow for information to flow across the company in a secure manner using a distributed ledger.

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UAE Health Industry Taps Blockchain for Tamper-Proof Data Storage 

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) Ministry of Health and Prevention (MoHAP) has collaborated with several other government parastatals in the region to utilize distributed ledger technology (DLT) for data storage and the provision of smart healthcare solutions, reports The Science Times on February 17, 2020.

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Google Cloud Joins Hedera Hashgraph’s Governing Council To Instill Protocol Reliability

Google Cloud is now a member of the distributed ledger firm Hedera Hashgraph’s governing body, as an announcement from Tuesday says. This is from a blog post from the cloud-focused business unit reads: “As part of our council membership, Google Cloud will operate a Hedera network node, and make the ledger data available for analytics alongside […]

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Hedera Hashgraph partners with Armanino for audited HBAR account data

Hedera Hashgraph, the enterprise-grade distributed ledger platform, has announced a partnership with Armanino LLP, one of the 25 largest accounting and business consulting firms in the U. S. The partnership allows Hedera ecosystem participants to leverage Armanino’s DLT assurance technology platform, TrustExplorer, and its new Trusted Node data service for a reliable source of transaction and account data.

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Hyperledger Fabric 2.0 Launches With New Features; Decentralized Governance And Data Privacy

In an official launch published by Hyperledger Foundation, users can now access the Hyperledger 2. 0, the second version of their enterprise based decentralized ledger, focusing on production. Hyperledger Fabric 2.

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Power Ledger Integrates Blockchain-Based Energy Auditing in Solar Power Asset

Power Ledger has purchased a 250 kW photovoltaic system to launch a blockchain-based data management and settlement system

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BCH Is An A-Class Crypto for Auditability

Crypto research group Coin Metrics recently released issue 30 of its “State of the Network” series, which ranks crypto assets by auditability. Taking into account node operation, synchronization, normal operation, code audit and extraction of ledger data, the top 10 cryptocurrencies by market cap were ranked.

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IOTA Price Prediction 2020 | 2025 | 2030 – Future Forecast For IOTA Price

IOTA Intro IOTA was started to provide distributed ledger technology for the machines and internet-of-things (IoT) space where small connected devices regularly share data. Because these machines and devices are generally specialized to be low power and perform only specific functions IOTA does not use a traditional consensus mechanism like proof-of-work or proof-of-stake nor does […]The post IOTA Price Prediction 2020 | 2025 | 2030 – Future Forecast For IOTA Price appeared first on CaptainAltcoin.

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Russia’s Power Grid Company Tests Blockchain for Power Meter Data

Russia’s national power grid company Rosseti is testing a system for electricity bill payments based on a distributed ledger by Waves.

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UnionBank, WWF, Streamr Launch DLT-based Fish Traceability Pilot

The Filipino arm of the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), UnionBank, the seventh-largest bank in the Philippines in terms of assets, and Streamr, a blockchain project that tokenizes streamable data, allowing users to trade digital content, are joining forces to develop Tracey, a distributed ledger technology (DLT) powered fish traceability system.

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Ontology blockchain to integrate off-chain data connection via Chainlink

Ontology, a network of public blockchains and distributed collaboration platform with integrated support for ledger accounts and smart contracts, announced today a partnership with Chainlink to integrate its oracle solution for building data-driven smart contracts.

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Huawei’s Blockchain Directory Linking Chinese Government Institutions is Live

Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei announced the rollout of a blockchain directory for government data that connects over 50 government undertakings to a single network for seamless data propagation.

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Which Cryptocurrencies Does Ledger Nano S Support?

The Ledger Nano S hardware wallet is very popular and very safe wallet for securing Bitcoins and altcoins. When you own cryptocurrencies, you need to protect the access to your funds and also your confidential data.

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Blockchain Spending in China to Exceed $2 Billion by 2023

China’s blockchain spending is expected to see rapid growth in the next three years and exceed the $2 billion figure by the end of 2023, according to a report carried out by market intelligence firm IDC.

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Iota, Dell and Linux Developing Platform to Rate Data Trustworthiness

Distributed ledger technology provider Iota, Dell Technologies and the Linux Foundation are collaborating to score data based on trustworthiness.

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Bitcoin Hitches a Free Ride as Blockchain Interest Skyrockets in China

Chinese President Xi Jinping’s Oct 24 speech endorsing blockchain seems to have yielded the desired impact on his target audience. Two days after the iconic speech, awareness and curiosity surrounding distributed digital ledger technology and Bitcoin have shot up substantially.

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ILCoin Resolves Scalability, Security Issues Of Blockchain Data Storage

The dawn of blockchain has given way to a field of possible adaptations for the technology. One of the leading possibilities for the distributed ledger network is on-chain data storage. ILCoin Trumps the Scalability Hurdle Because of the decentralized nature of blockchain — having no centralized entity controlling access to the files — blockchain storageRead MoreRead More.

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XRPL Labs’ ledger.exposed reveals XRP accumulation trend on the rise

The latest XRP wealth distribution statistics on the website ledger. exposed has revealed some interesting stats on XRP’s accumulation by token holders. According to the data in question, there has been a growth in XRP accumulated by token holders.

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IOTA Price Prediction 2019 & 2020 – Future Forecast For IOTA Price

IOTA Intro IOTA was started to provide distributed ledger technology for the machines and internet-of-things (IoT) space where small connected devices regularly share data. Because these machines and devices are generally specialized to be low power and perform only specific functions IOTA does not use a traditional consensus mechanism like proof-of-work or proof-of-stake nor does […]The post IOTA Price Prediction 2019 & 2020 – Future Forecast For IOTA Price appeared first on CaptainAltcoin.

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SLP Token Environment Built on Bitcoin Cash Continues to Expand

According to public data, a number of individuals are creating tokens using the Simple Ledger Protocol (SLP) on the Bitcoin Cash (BCH) blockchain every day. The SLP ecosystem is expanding and has given anyone the ability to create the next great digital token for tomorrow.

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Kaiko Raises $5 Million to Develop Data Infrastructure

Market data provider Kaiko has announced the end of their seed round, led by the likes of Anthemis Capital and Point Nine Capital, September 11, 2019. The company raised $5 million in a bid to further its service offerings with better infrastructure.

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