Personal data of ~273K buyers of hardware crypto wallets exposed in public leak

Ledger dropped the ball hard here. This breach was discovered at least in part months ago and downvoted/covered up on the Ledger subreddit, and now Ledger only admits to some ~10,000 breached details.

Companies willing to misreport information and attempt to lie so transparently about things should not deserve to have business come their way.

Known big crypto holders whose residential addresses are included in that list should consider taking precautions, up to and including moving.

Crypto communities need to update their collective standard operating manual in light of this incident.

Users should be encouraged to use PO boxes for receiving physical items that are associated with cryptocurrency.

This is also a good reason oppose KYC/AML laws that necessitate, under pain of imprisonment, that crypto buyers/sellers divulge personal information, including their residential addresses and digital copies of their photo IDs, to cryptocurrency exchanges.

Ultimately, the dangers of violating privacy rights is another reason to support libertarianism, and oppose authoritarian political ideologies, whether it's any brand of leftism - all of which have to rationalize some limitation of privacy rights if only to enact the warrantless mass-surveillance system needed to collect their heavy taxes - or police/surveillance state conservatism.