Ledger Confirms Implant in a Hardware Wallet as Reports Reach Europe: What Is Behind It

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.Ledger confirms an unauthorised additional circuit board in a tampered device and traces the confirmed cases to a reseller in South-East Asia. One report from European retail is still open, which makes the purchase route of your own device the criterion.Ledger has confirmed that at least one device belonging to an affected user contained an unauthorised hardware implant. According to the manufacturer, every confirmed case traces back to a single reseller in South-East Asia. Since 11 October, users have also been reporting devices bought from European retail, and that is where the case starts to matter for you: if the sales channel is the point of attack, the brand on the box counts for less than the question of whose hands your device passed through. What Ledger confirmed on 11 October, and what it explicitly did not In a status report 72 hours after the incident, Ledger wrote on X that all confirmed cases of the theft disclosed on 9 October involved devices sold through the Sou...