{"id":86627,"date":"2023-11-06T10:27:12","date_gmt":"2023-11-06T08:27:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=86627"},"modified":"2025-09-13T06:48:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-13T03:48:06","slug":"creators-of-fake-ledger-live-stole-768000-in-cryptocurrency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/creators-of-fake-ledger-live-stole-768000-in-cryptocurrency\/","title":{"rendered":"Creators of fake Ledger Live stole $768,000 in cryptocurrency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Users who downloaded the fake Ledger Live app from the Microsoft Store have lost $768,000 across various cryptocurrencies. On-chain analyst ZachXBT noted the incident.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\\\"twitter-tweet\\\">\n<p lang=\\\"en\\\" dir=\\\"ltr\\\">Community Alert: There is currently a fake <a href=\\\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Ledger?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\\\">@Ledger<\/a> Live app on the official <a href=\\\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Microsoft?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\\\">@Microsoft<\/a> App Store which was resulted in 16.8+ BTC ($588K) stolen<\/p>\n<p>Scammer address<br \/>bc1qg05gw43elzqxqnll8vs8x47ukkhudwyncxy64q <a href=\\\"https:\/\/t.co\/rOZ0ZWRWbn\\\">pic.twitter.com\/rOZ0ZWRWbn<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 ZachXBT (@zachxbt) <a href=\\\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/zachxbt\/status\/1720961400313373127?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\\\">November 5, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\\\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\\\" charset=\\\"utf-8\\\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>From October 19, the software circulated under the guise of a legitimate user interface for Ledger wallets, allowing users to store cryptocurrencies offline.<\/p>\n<p>In total, 38 transactions worth 16.8 BTC ($588,000) were sent to the scammer&#8217;s wallet. The first of these transactions was dated October 24. The largest single transfer amounted to $81,200.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>As of writing, all coins have been moved to another address.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>ZachXBT also found the attacker&#8217;s Ethereum address, to which assets worth just over 88 ETH were credited. The total loss stood at $768,000.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\\\"twitter-tweet\\\">\n<p lang=\\\"en\\\" dir=\\\"ltr\\\">Update: Received an ETH\/BSC address from a victim that has collected ~$180K in funds from the fake app.<\/p>\n<p>0x089Ecf0703B8E85183F29725f87da40AE488b7B9<\/p>\n<p>This brings the total amount stolen to $768K+<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 ZachXBT (@zachxbt) <a href=\\\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/zachxbt\/status\/1721073656648921398?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\\\">November 5, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\\\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\\\" charset=\\\"utf-8\\\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Microsoft has already removed the fake Ledger Live app from its platform. Nevertheless, ZachXBT believes the tech giant should be held accountable for the situation.<\/p>\n<p>Bitrace previously named <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/bitrace-identifies-popular-methods-of-stealing-bitcoin\">popular methods of stealing bitcoins<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Users who downloaded the fake Ledger Live app from the Microsoft Store lost $768,000 in various cryptocurrencies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":86628,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1209,1640,15,1246],"class_list":["post-86627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-fake-news","tag-ledger","tag-microsoft","tag-scammers"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"24","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86627"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86629,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86627\/revisions\/86629"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}