A judge has ruled that Apple is immune from the crypto wallet app lawsuit

A federal judge in California has found that Apple Inc. is immune from the “Toast Plus” class action case, in which a bogus cryptocurrency wallet program was available on the Apple App Store. After downloading the phony program and losing some cryptocurrency, a client sued the tech giant.

Apple is not liable for any losses incurred as a result of a customer downloading a bogus cryptocurrency app.

Judge Phyllis J. Hamilton of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California decided that Apple Inc. is not liable in a class action complaint alleging that a fake bitcoin wallet app was accessible for download through the company’s app store.

Plaintiff Hadona Diep, a cryptocurrency investor, accused Apple of hosting counterfeit mobile software that resembles Toast Plus, a legitimate XRP wallet program. The bogus software has the same name and branding as the actual one. In September of last year, she launched a class action complaint against the Tech behemoth in federal court in Maryland; the case was relocated to the Northern District of California in December.

According to the lawsuit, the plaintiff downloaded the fraudulent app from the Apple App Store in January 2018 and used it to execute a transfer of roughly 474 XRP coins from the crypto exchange Bittrex to a Rippex wallet.

Rippex was shut down in February 2018, however, the complainant was still able to access her funds using other wallets. In March 2021, the complainant “connected her private XRP key, or a seed phrase, into Toast Plus.” When she checked her Toast Plus account in August 2021, she realized that her account had been canceled in March 2021 and that her deposited XRP currency had vanished.