A 15-year-old security researcher has discovered a serious flaw in cryptocurrency hardware wallets made by Ledger. Hardware wallets are designed to physically safeguard public and private keys used to receive or spend the users cryptocurrencies. But Saleem Rashid, a security researcher from the UK, discovered a way to acquire the private keys from Ledger devices. Rashid’s method requires an attacker to have physical access to the device, and normally such hacks would be unremarkable because they fall under the #1 rule of security.”]
Source: https://krebsonsecurity.com/2018/03/15-year-old-finds-flaw-in-ledger-crypto-wallet/