How Musician Lost 5.92 BTC on Fake Ledger App

Musician Garrett “G. Love” Dutton lost 5.92 BTC (about $450,000) after installing a counterfeit Ledger wallet app from Apple’s App Store that captured his 24-word seed phrase. On-chain investigator ZachXBT traced the funds being laundered through KuCoin and split across nine addresses; KuCoin flagged the transactions and temporarily froze the identified accounts for seven days. Crypto commentator Scott Melker used the incident to warn users to verify apps via official channels and never enter seed phrases into phones or apps. Market impact is reputational: the theft underscores persistent user‑security risks in self‑custody, likely increasing caution around mobile interactions with hardware wallets and potentially driving demand for clearer app-store vetting, hardware wallet adoption, and custodial solutions among risk‑averse users.