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Who Is Planting Backdoors in Ledger Crypto Wallets?

Who Is Planting Backdoors in Ledger Crypto Wallets?

After crypto wallet maker Ledger announced Friday that a backdoor embedded in a handful of Ledger wallets sold in SouthEast Asia allowed thieves to hijack around $102 million in crypto from their owners, news has emerged of other Ledger wallets sold in Germany also having implants.

The hardware implants were originally found on an unknown number of Ledger Nano X wallets sold by an authorized Ledger reseller called CryptoBilis based in Malaysia. Ledger said the implants were found on a limited number of devices, all sold by the same seller. But a Ledger device owner in Europe has since said that he found an implant on a Nano X that he purchased at a large European electronics chain store in August and a second one he purchased…

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