The offline storage of the hardware wallet will completely insulate the recovery seed from the infected device. Offline storage means that if your hardware wallet is plugged into a computer infected with malware, your recovery seed and cryptoassets will remain totally secure. The recovery seeds of hardware wallets are both randomly generated and stored offline in the device’s secure microprocessors. Hardware wallets were invented for this exact reason. Therefore, storing your recovery seed entirely offline is an absolute necessary. If one of these viruses was to find a recovery seed stored on a computer, then the hacker behind the virus would gain access to all of the cryptoassets associated with that recovery seed.Įven with antivirus software, no device connected to the internet is invulnerable to attacks. There are viruses and malware running 24/7 with the sole purpose of searching and finding sequences of 12,18 or 24 words. Cryptocurrency assets are worth billions of dollars and are therefore a target for hackers. This means never take a picture of your recovery seed, never type the recovery seed into a computer or phone, never save it in cloud storage and never upload the seed on the internet. The most important rule with hardware wallets is to never enter your recovery seed into any device that is connected to the internet.
Never enter the recovery seed on a device connected to the internet
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