Ledger Wallets Taken off Shelves in 7 Asian Markets as Spy Chip Probe Deepens

Ledger has told resellers and distributors in six Southeast Asian countries and Hong Kong to stop selling its hardware wallets and pull them from shelves while it investigates tampered devices. In an incident update posted Oct. 13, the French hardware wallet maker said: The halt covers Indonesia, Singapore, Thailand, the Philippines, Vietnam, Malaysia and Hong Kong. That is a major expansion from the original response, which targeted a single regional reseller. Ledger was careful to limit the scope of its admission, noting that as the investigation has forged ahead, the only confirmed incidents remain contained to Southeast Asia.