Tampered Ledger wallets cost Singapore users $2.7M: Police
Police say at least two cases were reported as early as Sept. 10, nearly a month before the wider incident became public.
Police say at least two cases were reported as early as Sept. 10, nearly a month before the wider incident became public.
Singapore police say at least two cases involving tampered Ledger hardware wallets have been reported since Sept. 10, with combined losses of about 3.5 million Singapore dollars ($2.7 million), placing local reports almost a month before the wider incident became public.
In an advisory published Wednesday, the Singapore Police Force said preliminary investigations found malicious hardware components in Ledger wallets purchased from some retail stores in Singapore.
Days later, former Mt. Gox CEO Mark Karpelès said that a Ledger Flex purchased at Singapore’s airport contained a spy implant.