Ledger, the leading cold wallet providing company, appears to be reaping the consequences of an earlier hack that saw its e-commerce database compromised.
Earlier in June, Ledger’s e-commerce and marketing database was hacked, and as a result, millions of clients’ confidential information secured on the company’s servers were compromised. Confidential information, such as phone numbers, email addresses, and physical addresses were stolen, and it appears that the hacker has now exposed it all on an online data-sharing platform dubbed Raidforum.
The dump that recently occurred has served to anger many Ledger customers, who threaten to pursue the company in a legal class-action lawsuit. Although no cryptocurrencies were reported to be stolen in the process, as the storage was offline, the exposure of such a large-scale database could still pose severe risks to Ledger customers, according to cybersecurity expert Alon Gal. He said that this could potentially trigger cyber and…