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The Exiled · 11.12.2023., 15:32

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Sleuths have discovered a vast data harvesting operation by the world’s largest hardware wallet manufacturer, Ledger. For reasons that are difficult to comprehend, Ledger Live software transmits information about clicks, page visits, redirects, crypto transactions, page scrolls, numbers of accounts, crypto asset names, session durations, hardware device types, and firmware versions to Ledger’s analytics provider. Ledger Live is the official software for interfacing with any Ledger hardware wallet. The vast majority of PC users download this software in order to set up their hardware wallet and sign transactions.

Although Ledger Live doesn’t send private keys or recovery phrases to segment.io, it sends plenty of information about a user that could subject users to extortion attacks. Any segment.io hacker, for example, could easily identify any user with substantial crypto holdings — including timestamps of crypto activities and other terrifyingly detailed information about assets. In summary, Ledger is tracking user data, possibly for its own UI/UX workers, or to profit from resale. Luckily, users have alternatives, including tracker-free forked versions of the software, or using the hardware wallet itself without installing Ledger Live software at all.

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