The LEDs of the hardware wallet supplier has confirmed that his Discord server is safe again after an attacker committed the account of a moderator to publish scam links on May 11 to deceive users to reveal their seed phrases on a third -party website.
“One of our hired moderators had its committed account, which allowed a malicious bot to publish left scam on a channel,” wrote the member of the Ledger Quintin Boatwright team on the Ledger discord server.
“The problem was quickly held: the committed account was eliminated, the bot was eliminated, the website was reported and all the relevant permits were reviewed and secured.”
Some members on the Discord channel of Ledger said that the attacker Abusute of the privileges of the model to prohibit and silence Shem while trying to inform the rape, slowing down Ledger’s reaction.
Boatwright said that security violation was an isolated incident and that Ledger has additional measures tasks to strengthen its security in Discord, a chat platform that many cryptography projects use to share the development of the protocol and interact with their community.
Using the compromised Ledger Community Manager account, the hacker told Ledger Discord members that there was a vulnerability recently discovered in the company’s security systems and that he strongly urged all users to verify their recovery phrases with a scam link, according to a scam link.
Ledger users were asked to connect their wallets and follow the screen instructions.
It is not clear if someone was affected by security violation. Cinelegraph has communicated with Ledger to comment.
Accounting scammers sent physical letters last month
In April, scammers sent physical letters to Ledger hardware wallet owners, asking them to validate their private seed phrases in an attempt to access and empty wallets.
The letter used the Ledger logo, the commercial address and a reference number to pretend legitimacy and asked users to scan a QR code and enter the wallet recovery phrase.
An Ledger user who received the letter speculated if the scammers were sending letters to Ledger customers whose data leaked in July 2020.
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That incident saw the database of a major hacker book and download personal information or around 270,000 or its online client, which included names, telephone number and housing addresses.
The following year, several Ledger users claimed to have received false Ledger devices with which they were upward and designed to install malware when using, Bley Computer reported at that time.
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