The developers of Ledger told about an unexpected problem in the new software version for Nano S

Ledger hardware wallet developers stated that an unforeseen problem was found in software version 1.5.5 for the Nano S model. Improvements in the security context have affected the amount of device memory.

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On January 16, 2019 we released a firmware update for the Ledger Nano S.

We did not anticipate. We are committed to making it right.

Find more details here: https://t.co/b9ftqO3GLO pic.twitter.com/N1J86nBanA

– Ledger (@LedgerHQ) February 14, 2019

The project team apologized for the incident and promised to fix the problem during the second quarter of 2019.

The project also announced the addition of Nano S support in the Ledger Live mobile app on Android.

Earlier, researchers at Wallet.fail discovered a number of vulnerabilities in the Trezor and Ledger hardware cryptocurrency wallets. As a result, they were able to conduct a series of successful attacks on wallets during the Chaos Communication Congress in Leipzig.

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