Quote from: travwill on July 31, 2020, 10:02:15 AM

Quote from: Lucius on July 31, 2020, 09:35:59 AM

Quote from: bbc.reporter on July 31, 2020, 02:19:29 AM

There is also another form of an old, public information source where criminals can take your name, address and phone no. and it is readily available.
This is a telephone directory. It never caused anyone to break into houses hehehe.

This is not a good comparison, the phone book can contain the name, surname and address and of course the phone number - but it will certainly not contain information that someone is a crypto user or that person has bought a hardware wallet. But the very title of this topic is very wrong, because the attack is long over, the data has been stolen and the damage has been done. Those whose names and physical addresses are compromised in this hack are definitely a cause for concern - of course if the data falls into the wrong hands - others can only fear spam in their email box.

I agree that the comparison is incorrect. The phone book is somewhat anonymous, because you need to know something about a person in order to find him and know what he possesses.
For example, you can find media personalities, but they are not difficult to find anyway. The rest of the people will be dark horses for you.
This is the same as breaking into every house in the hope of finding something very valuable.

However, the argument was that the public information available about everyone never prompted on someone breaking into a person's house similar to the hacked information from Ledger will not cause criminals breaking into those people's homes.