A researcher bought a cheap Ledger hardware wallet off a Chinese marketplace. Cracked it open. Here’s what was inside:
Sanded-down chips.
Fake firmware pretending to be “Ledger Nano S+ V2.1” (a version that doesn’t exist).
Your seed phrase and PIN are stored in plain text — sent straight to an attacker’s server.
Oh, and it quietly installed malware on Windows, macOS, and iOS.
If you bought a crypto hardware wallet from anywhere other than the manufacturer’s official site, you might’ve handed someone the keys to everything you own.
Three simple rules:
→ Buy direct from the official website or authorized resellers only.
→ Verify firmware on first boot.
→ If the price seems too good to be true, it is.
Have you ever actually checked if your hardware wallet is legit? Most people haven’t.
Let me know what you think 👇
Sanded-down chips.
Fake firmware pretending to be “Ledger Nano S+ V2.1” (a version that doesn’t exist).
Your seed phrase and PIN are stored in plain text — sent straight to an attacker’s server.
Oh, and it quietly installed malware on Windows, macOS, and iOS.
If you bought a crypto hardware wallet from anywhere other than the manufacturer’s official site, you might’ve handed someone the keys to everything you own.
Three simple rules:
→ Buy direct from the official website or authorized resellers only.
→ Verify firmware on first boot.
→ If the price seems too good to be true, it is.
Have you ever actually checked if your hardware wallet is legit? Most people haven’t.
Let me know what you think 👇