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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On-chain analyst Specter traced more than $86 million drained from hundreds of Ledger hardware-wallet users across Ethereum, TRON and Bitcoin. With the cause unconfirmed, holders cannot yet tell whether moving coins to a new device would help at all.
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Ledger paused sales through authorized reseller CryptoBilis after investigators put suspected losses among its customers near $90 million. How the wallets were breached is still unknown. Ledger's fix is a new device with a fresh recovery phrase, which puts the suspicion on the sales channel.
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Onchain Lens traced 430.2 ETH, about $1.07 million, from a suspect in the Ledger CryptoBilis reseller breach into Tornado Cash, plus $270,280 into Binance. The flows are under 2% of the $70.6 million TokenPost valued in the suspect's wallets, so most of what the suspect holds has not been traced to a mixer or exchange as Ledger investigates.
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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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