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This is what the Ledger implant looks like from the inside.
A Reddit user opened a Nano X bought on a Russian marketplace, not from Ledger, and found a thin extra board wedged between the screen and the main circuit board, with its own antenna.
Ledger confirmed the mechanism overnight: the board reads the screen, waits for the 24 words to appear during setup, and sends them out over LTE on its own eSIM. The secure chip was never touched. It didn’t need to be.
This is why you always buy straight from the manufacturer. If you are worried and want to check, Ledger’s own guide is in the replies.
(labels in the photo: u/cheerful_afternoon on Reddit.)
Published at
2026-10-13 13:54:42 UTCEvent JSON
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