Hardware crypto wallet producer, Ledger, successfully reclaimed its Discord server on Sunday. This followed an incident where a hacker temporarily seized control of the community through a compromised moderator account. The attacker reportedly tricked users into providing their seed phrases on an external site and suppressed users who tried to warn others about the scam, as per findings from X.
“A malicious bot infiltrated our server through one of our contracted moderator’s compromised account and posted scam links in one channel,” Quintin Boatwright, a Ledger team member, explained on the company’s server. “We promptly addressed the issue by removing the compromised account, deleting the bot, reporting the website, and fortifying all relevant permissions.”
Apart from this, Ledger customers recently experienced another scam where they received physical letters instructing them to “verify” their devices by inputting their seed phrases on a particular site. These letters even had Ledger’s official logo, and the information seems to have been sourced from Ledger’s database breach in 2020.
“We’ve implemented additional measures to strengthen our Discord security,” Boatwright further stated. “Avoid entering your recovery phrase or linking your wallet through a Discord link.”
The scam site was reportedly deactivated as of Sunday morning.
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