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Tampered Ledger posted in Singapore a month before news broke: Asia Express
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Singapore police say tampered Ledgers started showing up there on September 10.
Key facts
- The policy, which would impose a 22% tax on crypto gains for investors earning more than 2.5 million Korean won ($1,883) annually
- Singapore police say at least two cases involving tampered Ledger hardware wallets have been reported since Sept. 10, with combined losses of about 3.5 million Singapore dollars ($2.7 million)
- The US Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctioned 10 individuals and one entity on Wednesday for supporting North Korean government-run IT worker schemes that it said
- Hong Kong crypto payments firm RedotPay plans to launch an IPO in the US before the end of the year, and has launched a pre-IPO funding round valuing the company at $4 billion
Summary
Singapore police say at least two cases involving tampered Ledger hardware wallets have been reported since Sept. 10, with combined losses of about 3.5 million Singapore dollars ($2.7 million). It’s not clear from the October 28 consumer alert if the September 10 case was reported to police at the time, or was made retrospectively. Ledger issued a public alert about tampered Ledgers being found in the CryptoBilis supply chain on October 9. On Oct. 13, Ledger said it has asked retailers in Indonesia, Singapore, Thailand, the Philippines, Vietnam, Malaysia, and Hong Kong to suspend sales of Ledger devices as investigations are ongoing.