A task-scam operator lost about 60 BTC, worth roughly $4.8 million, after criminals compromised three Ledger hardware wallets holding proceeds from the fraud, Chainalysis said. The operator transferred the funds into the wallets on Sept. 22, and the Bitcoin was moved on Oct. 9 to a wallet already associated with stolen assets. The loss does not mean the original task-scam victims recovered their money. The scheme allegedly paid people to create fake sales and reviews before showing them a negative balance and demanding deposits to release supposed payouts. The FTC described a similar pattern in 2024 and estimated about 20,000 task-scam reports in the first half of that year, while losses from job scams exceeded $220 million. Ledger said criminals bought genuine devices, inserted implants that captured 24-word recovery phrases during setup, and returned the tampered products to Southeast Asian distribution channels. The company said its systems remained secure and advised authorized resellers to keep devices off public display until purchase. Bitquery estimated total losses of $102 million across 324 wallets on TRON, Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana, BNB Chain and Polygon, up from an earlier estimate of about $86 million. The investigation identified CryptoBilis, a reseller operating in Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines, as the source of affected devices, and traced coordinated stolen-fund movements including $10 million in USDT frozen by Tether. The incident has intensified concerns over self-custody and hardware-wallet supply chains, although it has not been shown to affect global crypto prices.