Is Your Passport Wallet Safe? What Foundation Says About the Phishing Emails
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The Bitcoin Passport hardware wallet remains secure, with no evidence of compromise from the recent phishing email campaign, according to the Foundation Devices team. The emails, which falsely claimed a critical vulnerability and urged users to update firmware via malicious links, were sent to addresses likely scraped from public sources and do not indicate any breach of user wallets or seed phrases. Foundation emphasized that Passport users should only interact with official channels and never enter recovery phrases or download firmware from unsolicited links. The key implication is that Bitcoin self-custody hardware remains safe when users practice basic phishing awareness, though the incident highlights growing sophistication in social engineering attacks targeting Bitcoin holders.