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Board Bitcoin Discussion
Re: My ledger got hacked
by
psycoclan1
on 02/09/2021, 21:34:16 UTC
Very hard to say... theoretically you should be able to use your ledger on an infected pc and still not lose your funds...

I can think off a couple very remote scenario's that happened, or were at least discussed in the past:
  • You saved your seed in the cloud, and your account got hacked (icloud, dropbox, gmail,...)
  • You saved your seed on a physical carrier, and somebody found said carrier
  • You entered your seed in a different (vulnerable) wallet
  • You were the victim of a clipboard virus (eventough, this would have required you to actually make a transaction)
  • You received a device that had been tampered with... either preloaded with a seed, or plain fake
  • You were the victim of an evil maid attack (somebody had physical access to your device)

From all of these suggested possibilities, I do admit I saved the seed in my google drive. To access my gmail account though, requires 2FA. Google did not notify me for a remote login etc. I used the same seed since 2017 on the same ledger device.