Ledger halts reseller sales in Europe after confirmed seed-phrase implant at MediaMarkt

MediaMarkt Saturn stopped selling Ledger hardware wallets across Europe on October 13 after a German customer found an implant inside a device. Ledger confirmed that signers sold by reseller CryptoBilis contained an unauthorized module that reads the 24-word recovery phrase off the screen and transmits it via eSIM; third-party loss estimates exceed $86 million.

• MediaMarkt Saturn pulled Ledger wallets from stores and online on October 13
• The implant reads the 24-word recovery phrase off the screen and sends it via eSIM
• Third-party loss estimates exceed $86 million across Bitcoin, Ethereum and Tron
• OneKey and Trezor revoked reseller CryptoBilis's authorization