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What comes to mind when you hear of the Ledger scam is how sophisticated scammers in crypto have become. Earlier in April, we saw the Drift protocol exploit where $285M was lost after a terrible but genius six months of social engineering, with the hackers going as far as attending crypto events and posing as a real company. Now these guys have stolen $86M of users’ funds by acting as a legit supply chain distributor, gaining trust with Ledger as an authorized reseller (CryptoBilis in Southeast Asia). Devices sold through them appear to have been tampered with, including at least one with an unauthorized hardware implant, allowing the attackers to drain wallets across Bitcoin, Ethereum, Tron, and other chains. Ledger’s own systems were not compromised, but users who bought from this channel in the past 90 days have been told not to set up new devices and to move funds to a fresh seed if they already did. So how do we stay safe when it seems like nothing is safe in crypto anymore? -> One of the most important steps is to diversify your portfolio. Never hold all your funds in one place.  Cold wallets were supposed to be the holy grail of blockchain security, but with how sophisticated scams are becoming, it makes sense to still diversify across different cold wallets and private inactive wallets (maybe even diversify to fiat and hold in strong currencies like USD and EUR). Most importantly, we need to find stronger and more sustainable fixes for the insecurity problem in our industry. If we cannot find lasting solutions to the fundamental issue of security, then gaining useful adoption might never happen.