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Morning Edition · Saturday, October 17, 2026Published at 1:38 AM EDT · New York
Implanted Ledger Devices From a Southeast Asian Reseller Drained 60 Bitcoin From a Task Scammer, Chainalysis Says
The compromised hardware wallets, sold by reseller CryptoBilis, carried implants that sent recovery data over a mobile network, and the thieves emptied three addresses on October 9.
Chainalysis has identified one of the largest victims of last week's theft through compromised Ledger hardware wallets. The victim was a fraudster. CoinDesk reports that the person behind a fake online-jobs scheme lost more than $4.9 millio…
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Hardware-Wallet Trust Erodes
Recurring firmware and entropy defects in self-custody hardware, now surfaced faster by AI-assisted code analysis, will keep pushing risk-averse holders toward custodial and ETF products rather than personal key management.
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