Quote from: TopExchanger on Today at 04:13:03 AM

Are hardware wallets still the safest ones? Hackers got an access to users' info like emails and etc, but the funds weren't stolen. Now I don't know if I should buy Ledger wallet.

Nothing is completely safe, but only to some extent safer than something that serves the same purpose. We can generally say that a hardware wallet is something that should (and in most cases is) much more secure than an online/desktop/mobile crypto wallet, but that doesn't mean you can completely relax and live in the belief that no one can do anything to your coins.

Hardware wallets are also exposed to various threats such as fake versions of wallets (fake Ledger Live) or phishing (fake Trezor sites), and clipboard malware. But this is not a weakness of the device but of each individual user who uses it.

There is no documented case (as far as I know) that someone managed to literally hack a hardware wallet (remotely), which does not mean that hackers may not find a way to do so in the future. Hacking a Ledger database does not have a direct impact on the security of the device itself - but it can have undesirable consequences on the privacy of users whose data has been stolen.