VaultCoin
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I had a really tough day today I lost my retirement fund in a hack/Scam when I switched my @Ledger over to my new computer and by accident downloaded a malicious ledger app from the @Apple store. All my BTC gone in an instant.
A man kept his seed phrase off the internet to stay safe. The police put it on the internet for him. > His name was never released. > He wrote his seed phrase by hand and kept it in his car. > Nevada police pulled him over and searched the vehicle. > An officer unfolded the paper and held it directly in front of the bodycam. > Every word clearly visible and fully recorded. > The footage was released publicly as part of standard bodycam disclosure. > Bitcoin developer Jameson Lopp found it and posted it online. > It went viral within hours. > Anyone who watched the video had full access to his wallet. > The wallet was reportedly drained shortly after the footage spread. > The amount claimed to have been lost was $1.1 million. > No official report was ever filed. No name was ever released. He did everything right. Kept it offline. Kept it physical. The one thing he never planned for was a police officer pointing a camera at it.
Scammers are sending physical letters to Ledger and Trezor users, posing as official support and directing victims to phishing sites to steal recovery seed phrases. The campaign uses realistic branding and urges users to never share or enter seed phrases online. bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/…
3 violent, armed Bitcoin kidnapping and kidnapping attempts in France in a week. One every 2 days on average.
12 bitcoin security levels: - level 0: on an exchange. You don’t really own anything. - level 1: hot storage on a closed source shitcoin wallet (like @Ledger) - level 2: hot storage on an open source bitcoin only wallet (like @bluewalletio or @SparrowWallet) - level 3: cold storage on a usb hardware wallet with shitcoin support - level 4: cold storage on a bitcoin only usb hardware (like @COLDCARDwallet mk4 or @BitBoxSwiss) - level 4: cold storage on a bitcoin only airgapped hardware wallet without reproducible builds (like @KeystoneForBTC) - level 5: cold storage on a bitcoin only airgapped hardware wallet with reproducible builds (like @FOUNDATIONdvcs Passport) - level 6: analog-only airgapped cold storage (Passport supports this) with self generated ephemeral seed - level 7: cold single seed + passphrase (protect against seed compromise) - level 8: Shamirs secret sharing cold single seed (protect against seed compromise & introduce fault tolerance) - level 9: hybrid 2/3 multi-sig with 1 hot key - level 10: full cold 2/3 multi-sig - level 11: hybrid 3/5 multi-sig with 1 hot key - level 12: full cold 3/5 multi-sig Could be split up further but might not make a lot of sense. Bonus points for connecting to your own node at any level. I’m sure many will disagree somewhere. What would you change? What would you remove or rank differently? Note higher security is not always the best fit for your situation.
Fun game. Ask "where's my #Bitcoin" and see how many middlemen start sweating. If the answer is a customer support ticket to find out, you already lost.
BREAKING: China has been reading the private communications of 3 British Prime Ministers for 4 years. Boris Johnson. Liz Truss. Rishi Sunak. Their closest aides. Their most sensitive calls. Their text messages. Also compromised: Donald Trump. JD Vance. US Congressional intelligence committees. This is not a rumor. The Telegraph broke it yesterday. The US Treasury sanctioned the Chinese companies responsible. 13 nations issued a joint advisory. But here's the part that should terrify you: Western governments BUILT the backdoors China walked through. They are called "lawful intercept" systems. Every phone carrier is required by law to include them. "So we can wiretap criminals," they said. China found them. Used them. For years. They didn't just read messages. They accessed the FBI's database of active wiretaps. They could see which Chinese spies America was watching. And warn them. The surveillance state got surveilled. US officials now admit: "We cannot say with certainty the hackers have been evicted." Some networks compromised for 3+ years. The malware lives in the hardware itself. It can't be patched. It has to be physically replaced. This is the biggest Western intelligence breach since the Cold War. And most people have no idea it happened. Now you do. READ THE FULL STORY HERE!! open.substack.com/pub/shanakaans…
