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Mt. Gox’s Disgraced Ex-CEO Finds Redemption Exposing ‘Spy Implants’ in Ledger Devices

Karpelès has been posting about “spy implants” found in Ledger’s crypto hardware wallets for nearly a month.

Tarun Mottlia

Via Gizmodo

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Mt. Gox’s Disgraced Ex-CEO Finds Redemption Exposing ‘Spy Implants’ in Ledger Devices
Image: Karpelès in 2017, shortly after a court hearing in Tokyo © QUENTIN TYBERGHIEN/AFP via Getty Images

Bitcoiners and other crypto users are still reeling, and in many cases sliding into a deep state of paranoia, after Ledger confirmed that at least one hardware wallet sold through CryptoBilis, an authorized Ledger reseller in Southeast Asia, was backdoored with a hidden hardware implant.

“Ledger can confirm that one of the impacted users’ devices contained an unauthorized hardware implant,” Ledger Support wrote on X on Saturday.

At the same time, the disgraced former head of Mt. Gox, the infamous…

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