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Spain’s Civil Guard detained a suspect wanted by France over the 2025 kidnapping of Ledger co-founder David Balland, in a case tied to a wider wave of crypto-targeted abductions. Spanish authorities have arrested a suspect in the 2025 kidnapping of Ledger co-founder David Balland, marking a cross-border breakthrough in one of Europe’s most high-profile crypto-linked abduction cases. Spain’s Civil Guard said the suspect was detained in Benalmádena, in the southern province of Málaga, under a European arrest warrant issued by France. The man is accused of involvement in the abduction and torture of Balland, in which attackers demanded a ransom of 10 million euros (around $11.5 million). Balland was abducted from his home in central France on Jan. 21, 2025, and was held captive until a police operation secured his release on the night of Jan. 22.  Read more

Ledger names John Andrews as chief financial officer and opens a New York office to expand its US operations and institutional business. Crypto hardware provider Ledger has appointed former Circle executive John Andrews as chief financial officer and opened a New York office as part of its US expansion. Andrews previously led capital markets and investor relations at Circle. According to Friday’s announcement, the New York office is part of a multi-million-dollar investment in Ledger’s US operations and will create dozens of roles across enterprise and marketing teams. It will serve as a hub for the company’s institutional business, including its Ledger Enterprise platform, which provides custody and governance tools for digital assets. The expansion comes as the company says demand is growing from banks, asset managers, custodians and stablecoin issuers seeking secure digital asset infrastructure. Read more

The integration allows Ledger users to execute multichain token swaps directly from the Wallet app while retaining hardware-based custody. Ledger, the French digital asset security company known for its hardware wallets, has integrated OKX DEX into its Wallet app, enabling users to execute multichain token swaps directly from a self-custodial environment. According to the company, the integration provides access to OKX DEX’s liquidity aggregation from within the Ledger Wallet app, allowing users to swap tokens with the need to interact with external decentralized exchange interfaces. Ledger said trades are routed using OKX DEX’s proprietary X-Routing technology, which aggregates liquidity across hundreds of decentralized exchanges to identify efficient execution paths. Transactions remain signed on the user’s Ledger device, with private keys never leaving the hardware wallet. Read more

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Ledger is working with Goldman Sachs, Jefferies and Barclays to list in New York, potentially tripling its last valuation, the Financial Times reported.

The Financial Times reports that Ledger is planning a US IPO at a $4 billion valuation as hardware wallet demand increases amid crypto fraud and hacks. French crypto hardware wallet provider Ledger is planning an initial public offering (IPO) in the United States, which may value the company at more than $4 billion. Ledger is in talks with bankers at Goldman Sachs, Jefferies and Barclays about a potential US listing, the Financial Times reported Friday, citing people familiar with the matter. In November 2025, Ledger CEO Pascal Gauthier said the company was planning fundraising or a listing in New York, noting that money for crypto was “certainly not in Europe.” Read more

A third-party e-commerce breach exposed order data, enabling phishing attempts without compromising Ledger wallets or self-custody systems. A breach at a commerce partner can expose customer order data even if wallet systems remain secure. Real order context, such as product, price and contact or shipping details, can make phishing attempts appear legitimate and harder to detect. Treat inbound “support” messages as untrusted until they are verified through official Ledger resources. Read more

Security researchers spoke to CoinDesk about how users can protect themselves after Monday’s breach saw yet more Ledger customer data leaked to malicious actors.

Ledger customers woke up on Jan. 5 to an email no one wants to see: their names and contact information had been exposed through a breach at Global-e, a third-party payment processor. The company clarified what hadn't been compromised: no payment cards, no passwords, and critically, no 24-word recovery phrases. The hardware remained untouched, the […] The post Ledger customer data breached including info that leads violent criminals to your door appeared first on CryptoSlate.

Ledger customers have been affected by a third-party breach at payment processor Global‑e, potentially exposing names and contact details, while wallet keys reportedly remain secure. The post Ledger Hit by Another Data Breach — Customer Names and Contact Details Exposed appeared first on Cryptonews.

Global-e, a payment platform integrated by Ledger in 2023, suffered a data breach affecting some of the wallet's customers. Cryptocurrency hardware wallet provider Ledger has clarified a recent data incident involving its e-commerce partner Global-e. Global-e, a cross-border e-commerce platform integrated by Ledger in October 2023, experienced unauthorized access to order data in its information systems, which affected some Ledger customers. Ledger told Cointelegraph that the incident was limited to Global-e’s systems and did not involve a breach of Ledger’s platform or its hardware and software. Read more

Ledger is dealing with a new data exposure incident involving its third-party payment processor, Global-e.

UK citizens are currently blocked from viewing certain Ledger blog pages, including an educational post on multisig wallets, due to new compliance rules. When visiting these pages, users in the UK receive a message: “Due to new rules in the UK, certain Ledger.com webpages are restricted.” These restrictions affect crypto educational resources and are linked […] The post Ledger pages blocked as UK’s crypto crackdown hits education, advertising, banking appeared first on CryptoSlate.

Ledger is weighing a New York listing after revenues hit triple-digit millions in 2025, driven by record crypto hacks and growing demand for cold storage wallets. French crypto hardware wallet provider Ledger is considering a New York listing as surging cyberattacks drive record demand for its hardware devices, sending revenues soaring into the triple-digit millions in 2025. CEO Pascal Gauthier recently told the Financial Times that the company, founded in Paris in 2014, is seeing its best year yet as both individuals and companies rush to protect their digital assets from increasingly sophisticated hackers. “We’re being hacked more and more every day ... hacking of your bank accounts, of your crypto, and it’s not going to get better next year and the year after that,” he said. Read more

Ledger’s new multisig app earns praise for tech upgrades but sparks backlash over added transaction fees. Crypto hardware wallet provider Ledger recently announced a new multisig interface that has been broadly welcomed as a technical improvement but criticized for introducing a new fee structure that some users have called a cash grab. The Ledger Multisig application will charge users a flat $10 fee for all transactions except token transfers, which incur a 0.05% variable fee. These charges come in addition to standard blockchain network gas fees, which are independent of Ledger. Ethereum developer and X user pcaversaccio criticized the move, writing: “You parade as Cypherpunk while trying to make Ledger Wallet (rebranded from Ledger Live) the single choke point for all crypto so you can squeeze everyone through it (guys, this won’t happen).” Read more

Ledger’s new multisig app earns praise for tech upgrades but sparks backlash over added transaction fees. Crypto hardware wallet provider Ledger recently announced a new multisig interface that has been broadly welcomed as a technical improvement but criticized for introducing a new fee structure that some users have called a cash grab. The Ledger Multisig application will charge users a flat $10 fee for all transactions except token transfers, which incur a 0.05% variable fee. These charges come in addition to standard blockchain network gas fees, which are independent of Ledger. Ethereum developer and X user pcaversaccio criticized the move, writing: “You parade as Cypherpunk while trying to make Ledger Wallet (rebranded from Ledger Live) the single choke point for all crypto so you can squeeze everyone through it (guys, this won’t happen).” Read more

Cointelegraph takes a look at the latest devices from Ledger and Trezor, two long-time leaders in self-custody hardware wallets. Major hardware crypto wallet providers Ledger and Trezor have both released new wallet iterations, giving users additional options to safeguard their assets through self-custody. Paris-based Ledger introduced its latest device, the Ledger Nano Gen5, on Thursday. In a notable shift, the company has dropped the term “hardware wallet” entirely, now referring to all its devices as “Ledger signers.” Rival hardware wallet company Trezor, based in Prague, also released its Trezor Safe 7 earlier this week, describing the device as its first quantum-ready hardware wallet. Read more

SOCRadar Dark Web Team detected threat actors distributing phishing tools that impersonate Ledger hardware wallet interfaces to allegedly steal crypto from unsuspecting users. According to a Sept. 1 report, the cybercriminals advertise a “Ledger Wallet 2025 Smart Scampage Inferno Multichain” kit that replicates the official Ledger interface with professional design elements. The malicious package features […] The post Dark web vendors distribute fake Ledger wallet pages targeting crypto users appeared first on CryptoSlate.

Unlike Ledger’s previously released key recovery product, Ledger Recover, the new Ledger Recovery Key is always offline and doesn’t require identification. Ledger, a major provider of hardware cryptocurrency wallets, has introduced an offline tool for private key recovery to help users regain access to their crypto wallets without relying on cloud-based services or personal data. Ledger Recovery Key is an offline physical recovery tool allowing Ledger Flex or Ledger Stax users to store their private keys on a smart card with NFC connection, the firm said in an announcement shared with Cointelegraph. Unlike Ledger’s previously released key recovery product, Ledger Recover, which stores encrypted fragments of recovery phrases in cloud-based hardware security modules, Ledger Recovery Key is always offline and protected by its own PIN. Read more

The latest reported “wrench attack,” in which criminals targeted individuals for their crypto holdings, occurred in the suburbs of Paris this week. France has reportedly seen another incident targeting cryptocurrency users, this time involving the kidnapping of a 23-year-old man in a Paris suburb. According to a Thursday report from French news outlet Le Parisien, the victim was abducted in Maisons-Alfort and held captive for several hours while the perpetrators demanded his partner to turn over 5,000 euros ($5,764) in cash, along with the key to a Ledger hardware wallet containing an unreported amount of crypto. The report suggested that the criminals used violence to extract information regarding his digital assets. Read more