{"id":1163,"date":"2024-08-16T16:30:16","date_gmt":"2024-08-16T16:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/berlinpresse.com\/germany-federal-office-urges-use-of-hardware-wallets-as-crypto-theft-rises\/"},"modified":"2024-08-16T16:30:16","modified_gmt":"2024-08-16T16:30:16","slug":"germany-federal-office-urges-use-of-hardware-wallets-as-crypto-theft-rises","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/berlinpresse.com\/en\/germany-federal-office-urges-use-of-hardware-wallets-as-crypto-theft-rises\/","title":{"rendered":"Germany Federal Office urges use of hardware wallets as crypto theft rises"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>Germany\u2019s Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) advised crypto users to secure their digital assets with <a href=\"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/glossary\/hard-wallet\/\">hardware wallets<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In the LinkedIn <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/posts\/bsibund_bitcoin-kryptowaeuhrung-sicherheit-activity-7225769264358535168-zr6r?utm_source=share&amp;utm_medium=member_desktop\">post<\/a>, the authorities declared hardware wallets the most secure method for storing digital assets, explaining that these devices can help to keep a user\u2019s private cryptographic keys in offline or \u201ccold\u201d storage. This offline storage ensures the keys are secure until they are needed for a transaction.<\/p>\n<p>The Information Security Office highlighted several risks associated with storing assets on third-party platforms like exchanges. Although&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/germany-federal-office-urges-use-of-hardware-wallets-as-crypto-theft-rises\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Germany\u2019s Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) advised crypto users to secure their digital assets with hardware wallets. In the LinkedIn post, the authorities declared hardware wallets the most secure method for storing digital assets, explaining that these devices can help to keep a user\u2019s private cryptographic keys in offline or \u201ccold\u201d storage. This offline [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1163","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-germany"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/berlinpresse.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/berlinpresse.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/berlinpresse.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/berlinpresse.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/berlinpresse.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/berlinpresse.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1163\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/berlinpresse.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/berlinpresse.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/berlinpresse.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}