Garrett Dutton, known as G. Love, lost approximately $420,000 in Bitcoin after entering his seed phrase into a counterfeit app downloaded from the App Store.
Garrett Dutton, American singer and musician known as G. Love, frontman of the hip-hop blues band G. Love & Special Sauce, lost 5.9 BTC – equivalent to approximately $420,000 – due to a malicious application impersonating the official Ledger app. The incident was made public on Saturday, April 12, 2026, through a post on X, in which Dutton recounted downloading the counterfeit app from the App Store onto his new computer and entering his seed phrase, instantly losing all of his Bitcoin.
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Damn...
Spread the blame across all parties. Ledger for not protecting users details, Apple/Google for letting scammers onto their app store, and the musician for being too complacent.
This is rather grim news; I can’t begin to imagine how the person who lost 5.9 bitcoins must feel. 😵 And I’m really surprised that, these days, there are still people using Ledger.
Ouch.
Never felt comfortable with proprietary cold wallets.
Using an always offline linux OS and electrum is less convenient but feels safer.
With proprietary CWs you are trusting a third party and hostage to their aps, software, updates and hardware - learning how to operate your own cold wallet using electrum is a skill that is worth investing in imo.
Its also fun learning how to run persistent memory linux from a USB.
https://itsfoss.gitlab.io/post/how-to-install-linux-os-on-usb-drive-and-run-it-on-any-pc/
https://electrum.readthedocs.io/en/latest/coldstorage.html
https://twiiit.com/glove/status/2043047396322451700