Hardware wallet after the data breach: four ways to order without a home address

The information provided in this article is for informational purposes only and does not constitute financial advice. Cryptocurrency investments carry a high degree of risk. Always conduct your own research.Keystone has confirmed a data breach and Trezor lost customer data at its logistics provider: the keys stayed safe in both cases, the delivery addresses did not. This piece shows the four routes to obtaining a hardware wallet in Germany without writing your home address into the next database.A hardware wallet protects your keys reliably. It does not protect your home address. The short answer to getting both at once: have the device delivered to a parcel locker, a post office branch or another pickup point, or buy it over the counter in a shop. Your name then sits in the retailer's order database next to a locker number instead of next to your front door. October showed that this difference is no quirk of the overcautious. Within a few months several providers in the custody business have conceded that customer data leaked. Not once did it involve keys or balances. Every time it involved names, phone numbers and delivery addresses of people for whom it is now on record that the...