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Board Altcoin Discussion
Printers hacked!! Will it affect cryptocurrency wallets?
by
Nickcerny
on 05/12/2018, 12:29:01 UTC
According to the resource, there has been printers hacked which is done by one of the pewdiepie fan.  He commanded 50,000 printers and used them to print a message in support of PewDiePie. The major takeaway from the incident from a cryptocurrency security standpoint is that printing bitcoin wallet recovery seeds from a networked printer may be an incredibly risky activity. The process of hacking an internet-connected printer could involve stealing files stored on the printer’s internal memory. What do you think about it? Will It affect any of the users bitcoins wallet?