{"id":460072,"date":"2021-04-01T01:00:48","date_gmt":"2021-04-01T01:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktsl888.com\/?p=460072"},"modified":"2024-06-11T14:14:27","modified_gmt":"2024-06-11T14:14:27","slug":"phishing-bitcoin-btc-iphone-apple-app-store","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktsl888.com\/news\/phishing-bitcoin-btc-iphone-apple-app-store\/","title":{"rendered":"Go Phish: How This Bitcoin Investor Lost 17 BTC To An iPhone App"},"content":{"rendered":"
Bitcoin is once again making headlines everywhere<\/a>, mostly for all the right reasons this time around. However, where there’s money to be made, there’s also scammers waiting in the shadows to steal funds whenever they can.<\/p>\n The latest situation involves a highly sophisticated replica of a popular Apple iPhone app, a malicious application from Apple’s App Store, and a now stolen 17 BTC.<\/p>\n During the height of the 2017 bull market, one of the symbols that cryptocurrencies had “made it” was when Coinbase had been topping the Apple App Store<\/a> for iOS devices for days on end. Investors were flocking to the platform in droves as Bitcoin FOMO took over.<\/p>\n These days, there’s much more variety out there, including more ways to buy or store cryptocurrencies beyond just Coinbase alone. The platform remains the most popular out there, set to go public within the next year or so.<\/p>\n Related Reading | Bitcoin Searches Spike On Google After Twitter Scam Goes Viral<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n Investors can also store their coins in third-party wallets, or use an app interface to interact with their hardware wallets, like Ledger<\/a> or Trezor.<\/p>\n That’s exactly what Phillipe Christodoulou meant to do, but instead lost a staggering 17.1 BTC \u2013 worth over a half a million dollars \u2013 in a phishing scam.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Christodoulou downloaded a highly rated, five-star app from Apple’s App Store<\/a>, the company’s flagship and regularly quality-controlled platform. Apple maintains certain standards, and works to prevent situations like this from happening.<\/p>\n But then why did it?\u00a0Christodoulou is furious with the company and rightfully so. He is also demanding answers and justice.<\/p>\n \u201cThey betrayed the trust that I had in them,\u201d he told The Washington Post.<\/a> \u201cApple doesn\u2019t deserve to get away with this.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Scammers regularly pull this tactic with Apple’s App Store, and unfortunately, this application somehow snuck through. The app was posing as a Trezor app, bearing the company’s logo and all.<\/p>\n Related Reading | The Most Common Bitcoin Scams And How To Avoid Them<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n But after loading it with his life-savings, it wasn’t until later he had realized what had unfolded. The app was a phishing app,<\/a> and now his 17.1 BTC are in the hands of a scammer.<\/p>\nBitcoin Investor Has Half A Million Dollars Worth Of BTC Stolen<\/h2>\n
The more expensive Bitcoin gets, the more scammers it attracts | Source: BTCUSD on TradingView.com<\/a><\/pre>\n
Beware Of Phishing Scams In Apple App Store, Social Media, And Elsewhere<\/h2>\n