Tampered Ledger Wallets Cost Singapore Users $2.7M: Police

The timing is the real story here: reports surfacing nearly a month before the wider incident became public suggests a detection and disclosure gap that matters more than the dollar figure for a hardware-wallet audience. This affects self-custody users who treat a sealed device as the end of the trust chain, when the compromise appears to sit in the supply or tampering path rather than the software. Worth watching is whether earlier reports point to a distribution or resale channel, and whether that gap between first cases and public awareness narrows.