Ledger faces class action from phishing scam victims
Ledger and Shopify are facing a class-action lawsuit over sensitive information regarding 270,000 of Ledger's customers' that was stolen by Shopify employees. Ledger and Shopify have been hit by a class action lawsuit over a major data breach that saw the personal data of 270,000 hard wallet customers stolen between April and June 2020,Phishing scam victims John Chu and Edward Baton filed the lawsuit in California against the crypto wallet provider and its e-commerce partner Shopify on April 6. The Plaintiffs alleged that the firms “negligently allowed, recklessly ignored, and then....
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After a major leak of email and personal information earlier this year, Ledger customers are experiencing a surge in phishing attempts. Phishing attempts and scams against Ledger wallet owners are on the increase with one such scam netting more than 1,150,000 XRP from its victims. The scam used a phishing email that directed users to a fake version of the Ledger website that substituted a homoglyph in the URL — in this case a letter that looked like the letter ‘e’ but wasn’t. On the fake site, victims were fooled into downloading malware posing as a security update which drained the....
A class-action lawsuit has reportedly been filed against a cryptocurrency scam that has duped many Indian investors. The scam, promoted in three Indian languages, lures investors by promising up to 900% return on investments. The Delhi court has directed a notice to be placed in major newspapers, seeking victims of this scam to come forward. Class-Action Lawsuit to Stop a Crypto Scam in India A representative lawsuit has reportedly been filed in order to stop a cryptocurrency scam from continuing to dupe Indian investors. The Delhi court last week directed a notice to be published in....
Cryptocurrency exchange Binance has warned investors of a “massive phishing scam via SMS.” The scammers sent SMS messages to crypto users informing them of a withdrawal request from an unknown IP address they may want to cancel. Massive Phishing Scam Targeting Crypto Investors Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao (CZ) tweeted Friday: There is a massive phishing scam via SMS with a link to cancel withdrawals. It leads to a phishing website to harvest your credential as in the screenshot below. According to the Binance boss, scammers sent SMS messages to cryptocurrency investors....
CEO of Binance, Changpeng Zao has alerted users about a massive SMS phishing scam that is targeted towards Binance users. The scam of the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange platform is redirecting users to a malicious website to harvest credentials. Changpeng Zhao tweeted on Friday There is a massive Phishing scam via SMS with a link […]
A new attack vector following the Ledger data breach of July 2020 involves sending convincing but fake hardware wallets to victims.