If 2025 was marked with massive crypto hacks, this year seems to be heading in a similar direction. The first week of 2026 witnessed multiple exploitations. Now, here is another data breach that impacted users at Ledger, a fintech company known for crypto hardware wallets. The hackers did not attack the platform but stole customer details through the payment processor Global-e.
Crypto investigator dives into Global-e data breach
As usual, on-chain investigator ZachXBT unearthed the breach and informed the crypto community about the incident. On January 5, Global-e customers received an email stating that the payment processor noticed unusual activity, where some parts of the network suffered a breach.
The platform, with the help of independent forensic experts, has conducted an investigation that helped them find that hackers had improperly accessed some personal data, such as names and contact information.
Global-e data breach does not spill over to Ledger
However, Ledger executives have officially confirmed that the security breach did not affect their services, such as Ledger devices, wallets, or software. Moreover, user private keys, seed phrases, and balances remained untouched by exploiters.
Although, we cannot directly connect this latest security breach to crypto, it has some relationship with the industry, as the data of users on Ledger was illegally accessed via Global-e. As Ledger is into crypto and blockchain, relating this breach to crypto is somehow significant.
The year 2026 just began six days ago, and the latest security breach is another incident following the exploitation of multiple wallets on Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) chains. ZachXBT reported the issue, denoting that hackers drained nearly $107,000 in crypto funds from hundreds of wallets on EVM chains.
Just before December ended, the Trust Wallet browser extension suffered an exploitation that caused a $6 million loss. The wallet provider later announced that its browser extension was back after the incident.
As Chainalysis once reported, personal wallet compromises have exponentially risen, from 7.3% of total crypto stolen in 2022 to more than 45% in 2025. The share of the total stolen value would have gone to 37% in 2025 if the Bybit hack had not occurred, according to the report.
