Photo by James Wheeler on UnsplashSince the Ledger database was leaked, happy fishing for users has been the order of the day.More and more Bitcoiners have been receiving unsolicited calls from the UK, Austria, Brazil, or Germany. This is one of the unpleasant consequences of the Ledger leak, in which the private data of 270,000 Bitcoin users was published. We asked around how much the German crypto scene has been affected \u2014 and speculate how it could have happened.Spam emails are now part of everyday life. If you haven\u2019t published your own email address on the net yourself, there was certainly a hack of your provider or a shop where you submitted it. Therefore, most internet users have learned to delete emails if they announce that one has won a lot of money, should help with a transaction, or has been caught watching dirty porn.The Ledger hack last year, however, took the game to a new level. Last summer, the customer database of the French hardware wallet manufacturer was hacked. It was not only the email addresses of around 270,000 customers but also their postal address and telephone number.Shortly before Christmas, the hackers have now \u201cdumped\u201d this database in a darknet forum, i.e., published it just like that. Why they did this is still a mystery. But the fact is that with this move, criminals and hackers gained access to the private data of around 270,000 owners of Bitcoins and other cryptocurrencies.The Ledger wallet is cheap and extremely popular, which is why just about everyone who deals with Bitcoins and other cryptocurrencies owns one. After a brief fanfare in the German crypto scene on Twitter, about 20 people contacted me who were affected by the hack within a few hours. I know another 5 people, and in a thread, in\u2026<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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