What if your hardware wallet had been tampered with before it reached you?

Ledger confirmed that a device sold through one of its Southeast Asian resellers contained a hidden hardware implant. Investigators estimate the losses at over $86 million. Ledger says its own systems weren’t compromised and believes the issue is confined to that reseller.

Swipe through for the full story and steps to take if you bought a device from them. Follow Cointelegraph for updates on emerging threats. ✅

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🔥 JUST IN: Bybit plans to roll out mStocks next month, offering 24/7 access to tokenized stocks backed 1:1 by real shares.

Built on Mantle, mStocks can also be used as trading collateral, traded on DEXs, and integrated into DeFi.

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🚨 BREAKING: MediaMarktSaturn has pulled all Ledger products from its stores and online shop following reports that some hardware wallets may have been compromised.

https://ct.com/news/mediamarkt-pulls-ledger-wallet-security-incident

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🔥 Strive acquired 3,311 BTC last week, taking its total Bitcoin holdings to 32,773.

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🔥 Bullish: CryptoQuant founder Ki Young Ju believes Bitcoin’s bear market is over. He expects the next 12–24 months to bring either a rally or a period of sideways trading.

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🚨 UPDATE: Under the SEC’s revised quorum rules, one commissioner can now approve crypto regulations if the other is recused.

The change comes as regulators move forward with crypto rulemaking, while Congress has yet to pass a comprehensive market structure bill.

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⚡️ NEW: Starknet is bringing Shadow Accounts to public DeFi, linking them privately to users’ primary wallets. The first integration launches tomorrow.

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🚨 Bank of America has been hit with a $1.2 billion fine over anti-money laundering failures. The bank allegedly failed to flag $5 billion in transactions suspected of involving illicit funds.

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🚨 OpenAI says it has fired an employee who was arrested on suspicion of secretly installing a recording device at the office. The company says there’s no evidence any data was taken.

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🚨 BREAKING: Morgan Stanley expects Brent crude to reach $105 per barrel in Q4 2026, before slipping to $100 in Q1 2027.

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🚨 UPDATE: Ledger has asked resellers and distributors in six Southeast Asian countries and Hong Kong to stop selling its devices and pull them from shelves while it investigates reports of tampering.

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🚨 UPDATE: An OpenAI engineer has been arrested on suspicion of planting a recording device in an executive conference room. If convicted, they could face up to five years in prison.

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🚨 BREAKING: Ledger has asked retailers in Hong Kong and six Southeast Asian countries to remove its hardware wallets from sale as it investigates reports of device tampering.

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🔥 TODAY: Ripple is teaming up with Stripe-owned Privy to bring embedded wallets and AI-powered agent payments to the XRP Ledger.

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🚨 UPDATE: Solana’s Alpenglow upgrade is set to launch on mainnet-beta on October 21, bringing transaction finality down from seconds to around 150 milliseconds.

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🇨🇳 China’s trade surplus reached $938 billion in the first nine months of the year, putting it on course to surpass last year’s record. Exports surged 36% in September.

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🇺🇸 Trump: “A major push to develop Greenland’s oil, gas, and mineral resources is about to begin!”

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🇸🇬 Anthropic is opening a Singapore office and partnering with the government on AI safety.

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🇺🇸 JUST IN: US inflation climbed 3.7% year over year, topping the 3.6% forecast.

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🇺🇸 BREAKING: The OCC says nine of the largest U.S. banks maintained policies restricting access to banking services between 2020 and September 2025. Crypto was among the industries affected.

• JPMorgan Chase
• Bank of America
• Citibank
• Wells Fargo
• U.S. Bank
• Capital One
• PNC Bank
• TD Bank
• BMO Bank

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🇪🇺 Circle’s USDC has become the first stablecoin deemed “significant” under the EU’s MiCA rules. From November 12, it will be directly supervised by the European Banking Authority.

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