Ledger Wallet Users Lose Nearly $800,000 To Fake App On Microsoft’s App Store 😱😱⁉️
Ledger Live Users Lose $600,000 In Bitcoin: Report
In a November 5 post on the X (formerly Twitter) platform, ZachXBT raised an alarm on the suspicious application, “Ledger Live Web3”, which is conning users into thinking they are installing the original “Ledger Live” app. The original Ledger Live is a user interface app that allows hardware wallet users to store their crypto assets offline.
According to on-chain data, roughly 16,800 BTC (worth approximately $588,000) has been received by the exploiter across 38 different transactions using the wallet address “bc1q…y64q”. The first set of funds (an estimated total of $87,600) were transferred to the scammer’s address on October 24, 2023.
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As of this writing, only about $115,760 – across two transactions – has been moved out of the scammer’s wallet address. Meanwhile, the current balance of the address still stands at more than 13.5 BTC (worth roughly $476,012).