According to our information, the French company manufacturing crypto wallets Ledger would be forced to pay a fine of €750,000 following a sanction from the CNIL. Due to the successive data leaks of its customers that occurred in 2020.
Crypto wallet manufacturer Ledger pinned by the CNIL
The National Commission for Information Technology and Liberties (CNIL) has issued a sanction in the amount of €750,000 from the crypto wallet manufacturer Ledger. The cause is data breaches that occurred a few years ago now.
It's a sad memory for the French unicorn: in July 2020, it was the victim of a security breach via Shopify, leaking certain contact details of around a million customers. Some time later, this database was made public, leaving 273,000 telephone numbers, addresses, first and last names of Ledger customers visible to anyone who wanted them. A disaster, in short.
We contacted the CNIL, which confirmed the information. The fine imposed on Ledger follows around fifty complaints of French residents, but also from other member countries of the European Union. Following these complaints, the CNIL opened a control procedure, before carrying out checks which themselves led to the seizure of the restricted training of the CNIL.
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The file was then the subject of a European cooperation procedure which led to the sanction imposed by the CNIL on Ledger.
The amount of the sanction pronounced by the CNIL has not been made public, but has been confirmed to us by a source close to the matter.
We contacted Ledger, who also confirmed the sanction to us, reminding us that its flagship products,The eponymous wallets dedicated to the storage of cryptocurrencies are in no way affected :
“Ledger confirms a sanction from the National Commission for Information Technology and Liberties (CNIL), in connection with an incident that occurred in 2020, which Ledger had notified to the CNIL and widely communicated to its customers. Some customer contact and e-commerce cart information had been obtained via a misconfigured third-party e-commerce API key, but quickly corrected by Ledger. Ledger is firmly committed to implementing the strictest data protection and privacy measures, which are continually evaluated and improved. Ledger products have never been exposed, this incident only concerns the e-commerce activity. »
Following this data leak, certain customers whose contact details had been made public found themselves facing phishing attempts. Bad people even sent them modified Ledger wallets to their homes to steal their cryptos.
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