New Ledger breach didn’t steal your crypto, but it exposed info that leads violent criminals to your door

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• 6, 2026 at 9:45 am UTC Share Cover art/illustration via CryptoSlate.
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• Ledger customers woke up on Jan.
• 5 to an email no one wants to see: their names and contact information had been exposed through a breach at Global-e, a third-party payment processor. The company clarified what hadn't been compromised: no payment cards, no passwords, and critically, no 24-word recovery phrases.
• The hardware remained untouched, the firmware secure, the seed storage intact. For a data breach, this is the best-case scenario.