Tell HN: Crypto Wallets Trust Wallet and Ledger appear to be compromised 12 by fadys | 26 comments on Hacker News. I'm really devastated. My nephew just called me and told me all his cryptocurrency is gone -- valued over $40,000. He has spent years earning it and resisting pulling it out, hoping he could eventually use it to pay for his college education. Here are the facts: - He has a Ledger Nano S wallet. - That wallet had 4.77 LTC, 4.48 ETH, and 0.73 BTC. - The Ledger generated a passphrase containing 24 words. He didn't add the 25th optional word. - He recorded that passphrase on a piece of paper and hid it. - No one had or has access to that paper. This is an absolute certainty. - That passphrase (those words) were NEVER entered anywhere. - On February 24th at 5:45 AM Eastern Time, the BTC was stolen. - On the same day, at 6:46 AM and 6:48 AM, the ETH and LTC, respectively, were stolen. - He also has a Trust Wallet. - He had $1500 worth of NPXS and $1000 worth of TRX in...