Lessons from The Ledger Data Leak: How to Secure Your Crypto

Ledger disclosed a data breach through payment provider Global-e that exposed customers' personal contact and order information (names, addresses, email addresses, phone numbers and some order details); recovery phrases/private keys and payment card data were not exposed. The report warns this PII enables sophisticated targeted scams — phishing, AI deepfakes, QR-code phishing, SIM-swap and even physical coercion — and advises layered defenses: email masking, moving away from SMS 2FA to authenticator apps or hardware security keys, and strict transaction verification on-device.