G. Love Loses $420,000 in Bitcoin to Fake Ledger App

American musician Garrett Dutton, known professionally as G. Love, lost approximately 5.9 Bitcoin worth $420,000 after downloading a fraudulent Ledger Live application from Apple's App Store and entering his wallet's recovery phrase. The incident occurred on April 11, 2026, while Dutton was setting up his new Apple MacBook, according to his public disclosure on the social media platform X.

Dutton, the frontman of the hip-hop blues band G. Love Special Sauce, described the stolen funds as his retirement savings accumulated over nearly a decade in cryptocurrency since 2017. In a post to his 67,500 followers, he explained that he searched the App Store for the legitimate Ledger Live software, installed what appeared to be an official app, and followed its prompts to input his 24-word seed phrase. The application immediately drained his Bitcoin holdings, leaving his other cryptocurrency assets untouched. "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," Dutton wrote. He later added, "It was my own damn fault for not being more diligent. But let it serve as a warning. There's so many scams."