Ledger halts Asian wallet sales after hardware implants steal secrets
Daily Cyber News: Ledger asks sellers across Asia to halt sales after supply-chain attack
Cryptocurrency losses have prompted Ledger to halt reseller and distributor sales across Southeast Asia and Hong Kong while it investigates tampered hardware wallets. Investigators found modified devices that captured the 24-word recovery phrases used to restore wallets and transmitted them through an LTE connection.
Key context: The implant was a separate hardware component.
Additional detail: Anyone using a tampered wallet could lose control of the assets protected by that recovery phrase.
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