Casablanca – A fake app masquerading as Ledger Live on Apple’s App Store has drained nearly $420,000 in Bitcoin from American musician Garrett Dutton, better known as G. Love, in a case that shows even the most security-focused crypto setups can still be undone by phishing and social engineering.

Dutton said he lost 5.9 BTC, savings he had built over almost a decade for retirement, after downloading what appeared to be the official Ledger Live wallet manager onto his new MacBook.

I had a really tough day today I lost my retirement fund in a hack/Scam when I switched my @Ledger over to my new computer and by accident downloaded a malicious ledger app from the @Apple store. All my BTC gone in an instant.

— G. Love…