Ledger plans to release its Android-based Atom wallet in mid-2027, after a breach that onchain researchers put at up to $93.2 million. It plans no trade-ins for customers hit by the tampering, so victims who want the new hardware will pay for it.
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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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Ledger confirmed on Oct. 10 that one affected customer's wallet held an unauthorized implant, after drains that trackers put near $93 million. That proves tampered hardware reached a victim, but investigators have not tied comparable equipment to the rest of the losses.
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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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Ledger halts sales at Malaysian reseller CryptoBilis while it investigates user losses
Ledger told Malaysian reseller CryptoBilis to stop all sales while it investigates losses a pseudonymous analyst puts above $86 million. For anyone holding crypto on hardware wallets, the shop each device came from is now part of its security.
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A 20-minute push on TONIC's price bought the attacker $74 million in borrows against it, but only about $6 million reached Ethereum before Cronos stopped producing blocks and rewound its own state.
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Seven agencies price North Korea's fake-recruiter funnel at $1,530 a wallet
Japan, the US, Australia and Germany put eight months of North Korea's developer-targeting campaign at $10.71 million taken from more than 7,000 wallets. CertiK counted $2.06 billion of North Korea-linked crypto theft in 2025 alone.
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