xiyu
xiyu|Oct 18, 2026 04:47
Unbelievable. After $91 million was stolen due to compromised devices, Ledger's CEO responded by bringing up Mt. Gox's old scandals. Back in March, they published an article with photos of two types of implants: one hand-soldered with a basic LTE antenna, and another that was already a mass-produced version. After that, there was radio silence—users never received any formal warnings. This month, devices sold by distributor CryptoBilis caused trouble. The implants read the 24 mnemonic words displayed on the screen during initialization, then used eSIM and LTE to send them out—never touching the secure chip. Even official authenticity checks passed without issue. According to Galaxy Research, 474 addresses were compromised, resulting in approximately $91 million stolen. Tether froze $10 million USDT of that amount. Former Mt. Gox CEO Karpelès helped with the teardown and posted several tweets last night: instead of burying warnings in an educational article, better communication could have prevented this $90+ million loss. Gauthier initially replied, "You don't know the full story," and then followed up an hour later with a jab: "This is coming from the CEO of Mt. Gox... you're no white knight." Whatever Karpelès was CEO of doesn’t change the fact that after that March article, no one received any warnings. Official verification couldn’t prevent this, and authorized distributors couldn’t either. The real solution? Buy devices from different brands and channels, and use multisig.
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