I am very familiar with this incident through my friends in China, they told me first and I was late to create topic about it, the fact that I was able to hold is that China markets is now full of stores selling hardware wallet at discount prices.
When you tell people to be careful of cheap things they will look at you as a money waster. Normally hardware wallets are not supposed to be sold out of the company like electronics.
It should be purchased directly from the hardware wallet companies, I can bet with anybody that any hardware wallet that is sealed and sold by third party merchants or stores are 90% possible to be tampered already especially the likes of Ledger wallets.
I blame the victim, he clearly can spend up to $500 on a hardware wallet, he should have gone with the highest air gapped wallet and straight from the company direct not some side road store.
Even with all the bans and prohibitions on cryptos in China, is it really that easy to find hardware wallets for sale there?
This is a question I have and it's hard to find reliable answers, especially from someone inside China, because the information we get here is that cryptos are banned there, so I suppose access to a hardware wallet isn't that easy...
Do you have a source for the news story about which device was used in this scam?