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At the end of July, 2020 Ledger the French company behind some very popular crypto hardware wallets made a news post detailing a data breach they had suffered. In their update they admitted to losing customer data including the home addresses, emails, names, and phone numbers of 9,500 users.

On the surface it didn’t seem so bad but the crypto community went ape shit over this news as many of us suspected the breach was far worse than Ledger claimed. A growing number of users in the /r/ledger subreddit complained of phishing attacks and SMS based scams. A lot of people lost money to these scams and as time went on it became obvious there was more to this leak than met the eye.

I like to keep an eye on leaks like this so I had been waiting for a drop on the forums where this stuff usually happens. On Dec 20, 2020 Twitter user (@UndertheBreach) tweeted about a thread on Raid Forums (archive link)

ALERT: Threat actor just dumped @Ledger's database which have been circling around for the past few months.
The database contains information such as Emails, Physical Addresses, Phone numbers and more information on 272,000 Ledger buyers and Emails of 1,000,000 additional users. pic.twitter.com/Sv9cQwhuNy
— Alon Gal (Under the Breach) (@UnderTheBreach) December 20, 2020

Here we have a user by the handle Burgulema111 giving away Ledger customer data for free. This was a bit unusual as the data is quite valuable and they could have easily made some good money selling it. Most likely it was already for sale somewhere and this user was just passing along the goods for some clout. I’m not really sure yet.

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