{"id":671968,"date":"2026-10-16T15:50:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-16T15:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/?p=856421"},"modified":"2026-10-16T15:50:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T15:50:11","slug":"ledger-thieves-might-have-a-new-big-problem-stealing-from-criminals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/10\/16\/ledger-thieves-might-have-a-new-big-problem-stealing-from-criminals\/","title":{"rendered":"Ledger Thieves Might Have a New Big Problem\u2014Stealing From Criminals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"432\" src=\"https:\/\/static.news.bitcoin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/graphe-tween-1ygijhdga8w-unsplash-768x432.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium_large size-medium_large wp-post-image\" alt=\"A man wearing sunglasses and smoking a cigarette.\" style=\"float:left;margin:0 15px 15px 0\" \/>The Ledger wallet crisis just took another twist that could, in theory, lead to movie-like battles between criminal groups, as &#8220;big boss task scam bros&#8221; reportedly lost millions to Ledger hardware wallet tamperers. Analysts at blockchain analysis firm Chainalysis found that three addresses attributed to task scammers collectively lost 60 BTC ($4.9 million) when their [&#8230;] <a href=\"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ledger wallet crisis just took another twist that could, in theory, lead to movie-like battles between criminal groups, as &#8220;big boss task scam bros&#8221; reportedly lost millions to Ledger hardware wallet tamperers. Analysts at blockchain analysis firm Chainalysis found that three addresses attributed to task scammers collectively lost 60 BTC ($4.9 million) when their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":671969,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-671968","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bitcoin"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=671968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671968\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/671969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=671968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=671968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=671968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}