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Hackers steal NFTs worth millions. In other news, NFTs worth millions. (www.theblock.co)

submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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The way I read the article, the "worth millions" is the sum of the ransom demand.

The funny part is that the exploit is in the "smart" contract, ya know the thing that the blockchain keeps secure by forbidding any updates or patches.

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[+] [email protected] -6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

As a bunch of Ledger owners are finding out, there are reasons for FDIC insurance of banks and that reason is so that people don’t have to be exposed to the dangers of storing all their money under their mattresses

The FDIC is a scam. If JPMorgan or Wells Fargo failed they would not have enough to cover the loss. In fact they only hold ~2% of what they insure which would leave 98% of people with nothing. The only reason the FDIC is not bankrupt is because a cascade of banks have not failed all at once

what happens when a Ledger update bricks it?

The recent incident was a software supply chain attack. I am not aware of a bricked update but thats not saying much since i dont follow them closely

the company decides to backdoor it to escrow your “private” keys?

You lose all trust in them as you should and no longer use their products.

what can you do with those hardwallet funds besides HODL?

That is the point of a hardware wallet to hold your funds securely until you want to use them.

expose all of it to danger to do so?

Your hardware wallet acts as savings and use a hot wallet as a spend account with less money in it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I’m just saying what I saw over at https://old.reddit.com/r/ledgerwallet/search?q=Lost+my+btc+upgrade&restrict_sr=on&sort=relevance&t=all

Obviously I haven’t checked up on all of those, but it does seem to happen a bit. I’m not sure how frequently would be considered okay here, but that’s the sort of thing that shouldn’t happen.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 11 months ago

Yeah, it should not occur. I have never used one, so do not know exactly how it works. But I have not lost any crypto in the 10 years I have been using crypto.