Security· ★★★★· bearish·

Backdoors found in Ledger wallets sold by authorized resellers in Europe

  • —About $102 million in BTC, ETH, TRX and other coins was stolen from roughly 315 accounts tied to CryptoBilis devices
  • —A user found backdoors in two Nano X wallets bought in August and October at MediaMarkt in Germany
  • —Backdoors were also reported in Ledger's newer Flex and Stax models
  • —Hardware hacker Joe Grand found backdoors in Nano X devices in March and notified Ledger
Why it matters: The compromise of authorized sales channels undermines the core advice to buy hardware wallets only from official resellers.
Source: Habr — Криптовалюты