{"id":19097,"date":"2026-10-15T10:03:20","date_gmt":"2026-10-15T17:03:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/?p=19097"},"modified":"2026-10-15T10:06:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T17:06:11","slug":"ledgers-answer-to-wallet-tampering-costs-849-and-ships-next-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/2026\/10\/15\/ledgers-answer-to-wallet-tampering-costs-849-and-ships-next-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Ledger\u2019s Answer to Wallet Tampering Costs $849 and Ships Next Year"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A company with a worsening security record, with state level tampered reseller wallets supposedly stealing $86 million from customers so far, now has zero credibility to release such a device demanding such a hefty price tag. And I’m pretty sure none of their devices are completely opensource. Furthermore, adding apps and agentic AI on the device exemplifies upper management being brain dead. So they deserve to be in the dust bin of history with Coinkite after their Coldcard debacle, losing $130 million of their customer’s Bitcoin because they didn’t test entropy to make sure it was the hardware random number generator verse the flawed software library they wrote from scratch (I still think this was on purpose by the cofounder who ignored a warning). And hardware wallets originating from certain western countries should be suspect to begin with, as the west is not trying to have their fiat money printing subjugated to a new and better form of money.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/news\/ledger-new-hardware-device-asia-wallet-tampering<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n

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Ledger\u2019s new Atom combines crypto wallet security with everyday apps and is expected to ship in summer 2027 as the company investigates tampered wallets sold in Asia.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n
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Ledger unveiled a new device on Thursday with stronger protections against tampering, days after confirming that wallets sold through a reseller in Asia contained malicious implants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The French hardware wallet maker introduced Atom, an $849 device that combines a crypto wallet with everyday apps through a smartphone-like design. Atom separates Android apps from sensitive wallet operations and includes protections Ledger says would block the implants used in the recent Asia incident. It\u2019s also advertised to detect tampering even when switched off.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company expects to begin shipping the device in summer 2027, according to an announcement shared with Cointelegraph.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ledger said Atom will also support AI agent approvals, encrypted messaging and post-quantum cryptography.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The announcement follows a security incident that surfaced on Friday involving malicious implants found in wallets<\/a> sold through authorized reseller CryptoBilis. Ledger has requested<\/a> that distributors in Southeast Asia and Hong Kong suspend sales of its products. European retail chain MediaMarkt has also pulled Ledger wallets off its shelves<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A first look at Ledger Atom. Source: Ledger<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Asked when Atom\u2019s anti-tampering protections were developed, a Ledger spokesperson said the work was not a response to isolated incidents. The spokesperson did not provide a development timeline.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a separate blog post on Thursday, Ledger said it had introduced<\/a> new rules requiring authorized resellers to keep devices off display and hand them to customers at purchase. It also reiterated that returned devices must never be resold.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A company with a worsening security record, with state level tampered reseller wallets supposedly stealing $86 million from customers so far, now has zero credibility to release such a device demanding such a hefty price tag. And I’m pretty sure none of their devices are completely opensource. Furthermore, adding apps and agentic AI on the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech","category-world"],"blocksy_meta":{"styles_descriptor":{"styles":{"desktop":"","tablet":"","mobile":""},"google_fonts":[],"version":8}},"featured_image_src":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Jason","author_link":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/author\/jturning\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19097"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19097\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19100,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19097\/revisions\/19100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}