{"id":583772,"date":"2026-04-15T06:12:59","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T06:12:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/04\/15\/apple-removes-fake-ledger-app-that-stole-9-5m-from-crypto-investors\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T06:12:59","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T06:12:59","slug":"apple-removes-fake-ledger-app-that-stole-9-5m-from-crypto-investors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/04\/15\/apple-removes-fake-ledger-app-that-stole-9-5m-from-crypto-investors\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple removes fake Ledger app that stole $9.5M from crypto investors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.cointelegraph.com\/images\/840_aHR0cHM6Ly9zMy5jb2ludGVsZWdyYXBoLmNvbS91cGxvYWRzLzIwMjYtMDQvMDE5ZDhlN2QtM2IxMS03MGM4LWExNTAtMGVkYWI5NDE1NTNiLmpwZw==.jpg\" alt=\"Apple removes fake Ledger app that stole $9.5M from crypto investors\" class=\"type:primaryImage\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Apple told Cointelegraph that the fake Ledger Live app was removed and that the developer was terminated from its app store.<\/p>\n<p>Apple has confirmed it took down a malicious app that impersonated the Ledger self-custody crypto wallet after an onchain analysis found that more than 50 victims fell for the scam, losing a combined $9.5 million.<\/p>\n<p>Apple told Cointelegraph on Tuesday that the fake Ledger Live app was removed and that the developer, \u201cSAS Software Company,\u201d was terminated from the Apple App Store.<\/p>\n<p>Apple said the developer used a \u201cbait-and-switch strategy\u201d to trick users into installing a fake Ledger Live app and sharing their seed phrases.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/news\/apple-removes-fake-ledger-app-stole-9-million-from-users\">Read more<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple told Cointelegraph that the fake Ledger Live app was removed and that the developer was terminated from its app store. Apple has confirmed it took down a malicious app that impersonated the Ledger self-custody crypto wallet after an onchain analysis found that more than 50 victims fell for the scam, losing a combined $9.5 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":583773,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-583772","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-blockchain"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=583772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583772\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/583773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=583772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=583772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=583772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}