{"id":34699,"date":"2021-01-14T10:58:29","date_gmt":"2021-01-14T08:58:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=34699"},"modified":"2025-08-28T21:49:33","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T18:49:33","slug":"ledger-to-pay-10-btc-for-information-leading-to-arrests-of-cybercriminals-behind-a-string-of-attacks-and-data-breaches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/ledger-to-pay-10-btc-for-information-leading-to-arrests-of-cybercriminals-behind-a-string-of-attacks-and-data-breaches\/","title":{"rendered":"Ledger to pay 10 BTC for information leading to arrests of cybercriminals behind a string of attacks and data breaches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The hardware-wallet developer Ledger will pay 10 BTC to users for helping locate cybercriminals responsible for a series of attacks and data breaches.<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Recently, we shared news of a data dump. On December 23, we were alerted by our e-commerce provider Shopify about an incident in April &#038; June \u201920 where their rogue team members exported merchants\u2019 customer databases. Ledger was included. More details: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/NHU3IbDL0a\">https:\/\/t.co\/NHU3IbDL0a<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/DHQQ9arxCu\">pic.twitter.com\/DHQQ9arxCu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ledger (@Ledger) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Ledger\/status\/1349375083891011591?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 13, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Users can claim rewards for information that leads to the identification, arrest and successful prosecution of the perpetrators.<\/p>\n<p>The company has also hired private investigators and plans to cooperate with other industry participants and law enforcement agencies as part of the investigation.<\/p>\n<p>To enhance security, Ledger will reduce the number of places where wallet-holder data is displayed.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cOur goal is to remove your personal data \u2014 such as your name, address and phone number \u2014 as quickly as possible,\u201d the company blog says.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In the release, the company also announced the launch of a new technical solution that will allow customers to insure their funds.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/ledger-reports-data-breach-affecting-around-one-million-users\">the data leak of one million Ledger users<\/a> occurred on June 25, 2020. An unknown party gained access to users&#8217; email addresses, names and phone numbers.<\/p>\n<p>In late October, a user going by the nickname Polaris posted the database on the hacker forum exploit.in. User hyperdrill bought the data for 5 BTC.<\/p>\n<p>On December 21, Ledger&#8217;s hardware-wallet user data <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/ledger-data-leak-exposes-details-of-a-million-hardware-wallet-users\">became publicly accessible<\/a> through the Raidforums forum, where anyone could download them.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to ForkLog&#8217;s channel on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCC9FnXTC8_ENzaNSO5cHQ6g\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\"> YouTube<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The hardware-wallet developer Ledger will pay 10 BTC to users for helping locate cybercriminals responsible for a series of attacks and data breaches.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34700,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1188,961,1640],"class_list":["post-34699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-data-breach","tag-hardware-wallets","tag-ledger"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"19","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34699"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34699\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34701,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34699\/revisions\/34701"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}