Incident All ledgers
Ledger (Supply Chain): $93.0m
Ledger (Supply Chain) lost $93.0m on 9 October 2026. Ranked 45th of 1,272 crypto failures, with method, returned funds and comparable incidents.
- Date
- 9 October 2026
- Lost
- $93.0m
- Returned or repaid
- None recorded
- Target
- Wallet
- Category
- Frontend & Infrastructure
- Method
- Supply Chain Attack
Tampered Ledger hardware wallets fitted with hidden implants were resold to users; the implants captured recovery phrases during setup and sent them out over cellular links, letting attackers drain about $93 million. Ledger said its Secure Element, OS and internal systems were not compromised.
Against the ledger
- It ranks 45th of the 1,272 incidents with a known loss, and 8th in 2026.
- It accounts for 1.4% of the $6.49bn in known losses in October 2026.
- 93 incidents in the ledger are classified as Frontend & Infrastructure, for $7.49bn in total. This one is 1.2% of that.
- The ledger records no returned funds.
Other incidents named Ledger
| Date | Target | Lost | Type | Method | Returned |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14 Dec 2023 | Ledger Connect Kit | $484,000 | Wallet | Supply Chain Attack | — |
| 06 Nov 2020 | Ledger | $271,000 | Wallet | Phishing | — |
Closest in size by the same method
| Date | Target | Lost | Type | Method | Returned |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 23 Sept 2023 | Mixin Network | $200.0m | Other | Database Breach | — |
| 02 Dec 2021 | Badger DAO | $120.0m | DeFi Protocol | CDN Compromise | — |
| 03 Jun 2023 | Atomic Wallet | $100.0m | Wallet | Supply Chain Attack | — |
| 08 Dec 2017 | NiceHash | $64.0m | CEX | Key Leaked via Infrastructure | — |
| 09 Sept 2025 | SwissBorg | $41.5m | CEX | API Key Compromised | — |
All failures in 2026 · The failures ledger
Amounts are DefiLlama’s estimates and can change as incidents are revalued. Its returned figure can include money a company repaid itself, not only funds recovered from attackers. Source: DefiLlama.
Cite this Bitminer.io, “Ledger (Supply Chain), failures ledger”, data to 2 November 2026, https://bitminer.io/ledger/incident/ledger-supply-chain-2026-10-09/. How this is built