Can hardware wallets be traced back to the owner?

Question

I have a question to the Bitcoin specialists here. If someone buys a hardware wallet like ledger, the company now's it's address and which device they received. If a transaction occurs into this wallet, would it be possible for someone like govs etc. to trace it back to the  on the waller owner?

Answer 1

No. The only thing that they would know is who bought and hardware wallet. But they have no ways of knowing the Bitcoin addresses of those wallets. As the seed is randomly generated upon initiation and is also randomly created every time you completely reset the device.

Edit: They know your physical address, though. I.e. the street and house number where you had the device shipped. This is an information that is worrisome as it might help criminals who come upon this data to target confirmed owners of hardware wallets to rob them or to use a 5$ wrench-attack against them.

Answer 2

Ledger also leaked details of about 1 million customers, they held for marketing purposes.

Trezor (I believe) holds your details only for three months.

If you can, use works address, fake phone and write your name like a dyslexic person.

Answer 3

Mind you, if you bought your bitcoin on a KYC exchange all bets are off.  Your coins are tainted and any wallet you move them to is similarly tainted.