If your hardware wallet contains foreign components, German law gives you two years of warranty rights against the retailer you bought it from: a new device, a refund of the purchase price or a price reduction. What you will almost never get is compensation for the coins that were drained through the device. That difference determines what a trip back to the store will get you, and since Wednesday it has become relevant for more buyers than before.
Singapore police have, for the first time, officially recorded what until now only the manufacturer and some media outlets had described: hardware wallets sold in stores contained malicious hardware components. Our article on the confirmed implant and how to check your own device explains how to narrow down the suspicion technically. This piece deals with the other half of the question: who is liable, for how long, and with what proof.
What Singapore police announced on October 28
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