Ledger is hacked, as also the Trezor. Good luck
Link with the info about the hack?
Have recently ordered a ledger nano s and would like to confirm before using it.
It is an announcement of side channel attacks against hardware wallets, which requires you to lose physical access to the physical wallet.
Under such conditions, the attacker has forever to crack it and forever is enough time to accumulate statistical correlations using many side channel methods.How long this process takes might be less than expected, but the important point is that if you dont lose your hardware wallet, none of these side channel attacks can be done.
If you want a hardware device that can withstand arbitrary amounts of attack after being physically lost... Well I doubt any such thing was ever possible. Maybe some setup with a deadman switch that pays out to a preset emergency address upon violation of the keepalive protocol, something like that would be needed to make sure funds in a lost device are recovered.
I wouldnt say they had forever, could you just order another nano ledger S then recover using the previous passphrase and send the coins to another secure wallet.
I would say your more likely to get caught with a malware key logger than someone physically stealing your hardware wallet. May not be perfect but for me its about risk reduction.