Ledger secures Discord after hacker bot tried to steal seed phrases

By: coinstats blog|2025/05/12 09:30:06
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An unknown attacker hacked into a moderator’s account and used a bot to share phishing links and steal user funds. Hardware wallet provider Ledger has confirmed its Discord server is secure again after an attacker compromised a moderator’s account to post scam links on May 11 to trick users into revealing their seed phrases on a third-party website. “One of our contracted moderators had their account compromised, which allowed a malicious bot to post scam links in one channel,” Ledger team member Quintin Boatwright wrote on the Ledger Discord server. Some members in Ledger’s Discord channel claimed the attacker abused moderator privileges to ban and mute them as they tried to report the breach, possibly slowing Ledger’s reaction. Read more

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