https://ift.tt/8l9QP0E News: HEX.com Uses Ledger Leaked Database To Promote Themselves! | CryptoGazette

Remember the Ledger hack dating back to 2020? The one that involved the leak of the customer database? Well, it seems that fowl players are taking advantage of this hack as we speak.

Just to refresh your memory, at the end of 2020, it has been revealed that Ledger has been made aware of a data breach on its website.

The initial statement said:

“consisting mostly of email addresses, but with a subset including also contact and order details such as first and last name, postal address, email address and phone number.”

The customers have been attacked via email by all kinds of phishing attempts, with scammers sending fraudulent emails claiming that their “crypto-assets are at risk.”

Users were then required to download the latest version of Ledger Live. What’s the most terrible thing is that this fake version would then ask for the user’s seed words.

Back then, Forbes noted in an article that this revealed BTC’s greatest weakness is the companies that help people store and trade it.

“The hacked data includes customer email addresses, full names, phone numbers and postal addresses, according to Ledger.”

Anyway, things passed, and Ledger did their best to prevent such terrible events from happening again.

Bad actors take advantage of the Ledger hack

Now, we reveal the saddest news – there are bad actors who are still taking advantage of the hack. One of them is Hex.com – they are using the Ledger leaked database to send these mails to promote themselves.

You can see in the photos below that they used the individual data for their own benefit.

Hex.com is a platform that claims to have no central entity, no bureaucracy, and no overhead. According to their official website, there are no bonuses awarded to anyone outside of the users who Stake HEX.

“As a simple to use, high-yield investment tool, HEX makes you the bank.”

As good as all this sounds, the benefits of this platform are eclipsed by such moves involving using customer data leak from the terrible Ledger event. Feel free to notify us if something similar has happened to you via the same platform or others.