More than $93 million was stolen from hundreds of Ledger hardware wallets sold through Southeast Asian retailer CryptoBilis, after the devices were allegedly implanted with malicious chips. Ledger confirmed at least one affected device had unauthorized hardware, and all confirmed cases up to October 11 involved devices sold through CryptoBilis, though its internal systems show no sign of intrusion. Researchers say the chip could capture screen content and button presses to obtain seed phrases, but this is an inference, and Ledger has not confirmed how or when the tampering occurred. Bitquery estimates $93.2 million was taken from 315 wallets, YFarmX puts the figure at $94.5 million from 521 addresses, and Tether froze $10 million. CryptoBilis has paused sales and shipments of hardware wallets, and Ledger advises not using unset-up devices bought from it in the past 90 days, while existing users should move funds to new devices with new recovery phrases.
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