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by gruez 1909 days ago
>The passphrase is used for recovery if you don’t have the PK right?

yeah, it's in case you lose your hardware wallet or it breaks

>Either the device was hacked or somebody got the physical written passphrase, it sounds like.

Exactly, but the latter is much more plausible because it doesn't involve elite level hacking.