{"id":301930,"date":"2025-06-19T16:21:43","date_gmt":"2025-06-19T16:21:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/uncategorized\/ledger-ceo-admits-authorities-may-have-access-to-private-keys\/"},"modified":"2025-06-19T16:21:43","modified_gmt":"2025-06-19T16:21:43","slug":"ledger-ceo-admits-authorities-may-have-access-to-private-keys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=301930","title":{"rendered":"Ledger CEO admits authorities may have access to private keys"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"article-300\">&#13;<br \/>\n\t<meta itemprop=\"url\" content=\"https:\/\/cryptodefix.com\/articles\/ledger-admits-government-may-have-access-to-keys\"\/>&#13;<br \/>\n\t<meta itemprop=\"mainEntityOfPage\" content=\"https:\/\/cryptodefix.com\/articles\/ledger-admits-government-may-have-access-to-keys\"\/>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n\t&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n\t&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t&#13;<br \/>\n\t&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><em>The U.S. government may require Ledger to access users&#8217; cryptocurrency wallet information.<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"article-content-cover\" itemprop=\"image\" itemscope=\"\" itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\">\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" itemprop=\"url image\" alt=\"Ledger CEO admits authorities may have access to private keys\" src=\"https:\/\/cryptodefix.com\/repository\/articles\/300\/cover.png\" width=\"828\" height=\"388\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<meta itemprop=\"width\" content=\"600\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<meta itemprop=\"height\" content=\"400\"\/>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-content-full-text-wrapper \" data-section=\"article-ledger-admits-government-may-have-access-to-keys\" itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<div>\n<div class=\"article-content-full-text\">\n<div>\n<p>Pascal Gauthier, CEO of Ledger, acknowledged that authorities could gain access to the private keys of users\u2019 hardware cryptocurrencies. \u042d\u0442\u043e \u0434\u0430\u043d\u043d\u044b\u0435\u200b from community cryptodefix. This applies to those users who use the new Ledger Recovery service. But on the What Bitcoin Did <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=M3VjQUcyZSY\" title=\"YouTbe podcast \u201cWhat Bitcoin did\u201d\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">podcast<\/a>, Gauthier noted that they could only achieve this through the courts.<\/p>\n<p>Ledger Recovery is a feature to split a seed-phrase into three parts, each of which will be stored on a separate company&#8217;s server.If users lose the seed-phrase, it can be recovered by combining the stored code. If users lose the seed-phrase, it can be recovered by combining the stored code.  <\/p>\n<p>Ledger users resented the fact that not only the owner of the device could have access to it. 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