12-24-2020, 07:40 PM
No, Forbes, the Ledger hack does not "expose Bitcoin's greatest weakness"
<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>I'm incensed by the title of this Forbes article in my Google newsfeed today: "<a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/billybambrough/2020/12/23/massive-hack-exposes-bitcoins-greatest-weakness/amp/">Massive Hack Exposes Bitcoin’s Greatest Weakness</a>".</p> <p>The Ledger hack, which resulted in thousands of people receiving phishing emails and many of them being tricked into downloading malware that stole their cryptocurrency, has NOTHING TO DO WITH A "BITCOIN WEAKNESS". The Ledger hack exposed a LEDGER* WEAKNESS, period. </p> <p>*Edit: Ledger the company (who failed to protect customer data), not Ledger the product. </p> <p>F**king clickbait, and it worked on me.</p> </div><!-- SC_ON --> submitted by <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/na3than"> /u/na3than </a> <br/> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/kjhcfi/no_forbes_the_ledger_hack_does_not_expose/">[link]</a></span> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/kjhcfi/no_forbes_the_ledger_hack_does_not_expose/">[comments]</a></span>Kind Regards R
<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>I'm incensed by the title of this Forbes article in my Google newsfeed today: "<a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/billybambrough/2020/12/23/massive-hack-exposes-bitcoins-greatest-weakness/amp/">Massive Hack Exposes Bitcoin’s Greatest Weakness</a>".</p> <p>The Ledger hack, which resulted in thousands of people receiving phishing emails and many of them being tricked into downloading malware that stole their cryptocurrency, has NOTHING TO DO WITH A "BITCOIN WEAKNESS". The Ledger hack exposed a LEDGER* WEAKNESS, period. </p> <p>*Edit: Ledger the company (who failed to protect customer data), not Ledger the product. </p> <p>F**king clickbait, and it worked on me.</p> </div><!-- SC_ON --> submitted by <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/na3than"> /u/na3than </a> <br/> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/kjhcfi/no_forbes_the_ledger_hack_does_not_expose/">[link]</a></span> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/kjhcfi/no_forbes_the_ledger_hack_does_not_expose/">[comments]</a></span>Kind Regards R