Ledger disclosed on October 13 that an implant in a signer sold by CryptoBilis captures 24-word recovery phrases and sends them over LTE. Every fund loss Ledger has verified involved devices bought through that reseller.
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Solana Mobile picks Ledger as its first hardware partner for the Seeker app
Ledger will ship its Atom with Solana Mobile's Seeker app preinstalled, delivery estimated for the second quarter of 2027. The announcement came five days after Ledger confirmed a hardware implant in an affected user's device.
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Ledger bars resale of returned wallets after implants sent recovery phrases over cellular links
Ledger suspended reseller sales in seven Asian markets and barred resale of returned wallets after implants captured recovery phrases. Independent blockchain investigators estimate losses above $86 million, a figure Ledger has not verified.
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MediaMarktSaturn removed all Ledger products from its stores and online platforms over tampering reports. The public German evidence is an X user's claim that two wallets held cellular modules. Ledger did not answer Cointelegraph on whether it has confirmed any tampered device in Europe.
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Ledger asked resellers in seven Asian markets to pull its wallets from shelves on October 14. It has not tied a suspected implant in a Flex from a second reseller to the first cases, so how far the tampering reaches is open.
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Trezor will end its resellers' authorization on January 1, 2027, days after Ledger found an LTE spy implant in wallets sold by CryptoBilis. Trezor says there is no evidence its own devices were compromised.
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Ledger's lab took about 125 days to walk a laser flaw in Trezor's chip into public view
Both wallet makers say AI is shortening the distance between finding a bug and using one, which makes the pace of their own coordinated disclosure the number worth pricing, and the only loss they cite belongs to a rival vendor.
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A machine found the bug and set the clock: Ledger disputes TestMachine's timeline
Ledger's CTO says the Ethereum clear-signing fix shipped two weeks before disclosure. The public release record cannot confirm that, and an autonomous scanner chose the publication date.
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