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Cold storage hardware wallets are built on the premise that offline private keys cannot be reached by hackers.
Against the backdrop of that assumption, hackers stole personal details from nearly 14,000 holders of Trezor devices, the second attack to target cold storage users in two weeks.
The breach hit customer data held in company systems, not the private keys stored on the devices themselves.
The gap between device security and company data A hardware wallet's security model covers what lives on the device. Private keys stay offline, away from internet-connected systems.
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