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by aneemzic 1915 days ago
I'm sorry, but if the ledger wallet was actually compromised it would be an extremely sophisticated zero day hack that the hackers would not compromise being exposed over a few hundred thousand.

The fact he saved a screenshot on his iPhone of either passphrase, which is number one do not, shows he wasn't being careful and likely made other mistakes that could have been exploited.

I do feel for your nephew, but it's almost certainly user error and not related to the ledger wallet at all.