#Ledger攻击均指向CryptoBilis

Overnight, hardware wallets went from being the safest way to store coins to being a highly unreliable one, because hardware wallets sold by official distributors may have had hacker devices implanted in them.
I just saw news that the Ledger supply chain attack may have spread to Europe! It has been confirmed that hardware wallets sold by an official distributor were found to contain implanted devices!
This is a supply chain attack. Hackers have come up with a highly creative scheme, tampering with products during the supply chain process. Hardware wallets cannot possibly be handed directly to end users after production; during sales, they inevitably pass through distributors, transportation, and other stages. This time, it seems the hackers directly bought the qualifications of a distributor, openly installed theft devices in the hardware wallets, and then sent them to customers.
In theory, the distributor was officially authorized. Since customers were robbed this way, does Ledger bear responsibility for compensation? This is another new issue that urgently needs to be resolved.
This incident has set a terrible precedent for Ledger and alerted hackers around the world that this can be done. More people may start thinking of ways to exploit the supply chain in the future. After all, the global supply chain is long, and vulnerable security risks susceptible to attack exist at every stage, from factory production lines to transportation and distributors. Therefore, in the future, customers using hardware wallets will also need the ability to determine whether their hardware wallets have been tampered with and implanted with malicious devices—something the vast majority of retail investors cannot do.
I think the Ledger hardware wallet theft incident should benefit leading exchanges such as Gate. Compared with hardware wallets, storing funds on leading exchanges is clearly safer and more reliable, and also earns interest. Clearly, these major exchanges are no longer likely to run away or go bankrupt; they have extremely high security and abundant reserves, and even if they were hacked, they would have the ability to compensate users. To put it bluntly, if you are robbed, you can at least go and make a fuss at the exchange, and perhaps get your money back. But if your funds stored in a hardware wallet are stolen, you would not even know whom to complain to.
In fact, I have long believed that hardware wallets are not suitable for individual users, because they require continuous and careful maintenance, which individual users are not capable of providing. Serious problems such as loss, damage, and forgotten passwords can easily occur, and they are almost impossible to resolve.
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