TREE NEWS update: Ledger confirmed that devices sold through reseller CryptoBilis contain a hardware implant that steals recovery phrases. MediaMarkt has suspended sales of the affected Ledger units in Europe in response. The implant compromises seed phrase security for buyers of the tampered hardware.
Ledger confirms hardware implant in CryptoBilis reseller units; MediaMarkt suspends sales
This shifts a familiar risk — supply-chain tampering — from theory to confirmed fact, and the point of failure sits with a reseller, not Ledger's own production. Retail suspension by a major European chain shows the reputational cost lands on whoever touched the device last, which is a harder problem to police than firmware. The open question is whether other resellers or regions surface similar implants, and how buyers of already-purchased units can verify provenance.
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