Is this something new that we should be surprised about here on the forum? Well, anyone who thinks with their head knows that every app store (on any platform) is a source of malicious applications that are accepted as legitimate, but later their owners make modifications that make them malicious. Furthermore, we could say that those who look for trouble will find it in one way or another.

Situations like this only prove that the weakest link in the safety chain is a man who, thanks to his ignorance, does things which are completely irrational. Even if someone downloads an app that is fake, how stupid is it to believe that your seed needs to be put into it? It is a basic ignorance that is widespread in the crypto community and for which any malicious person can profit today.

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It confirms everything I have already written above, because how to call a man who has 17 BTC and does not know how important it is not to share the seed with anyone. Part of the blame is certainly on Apple and Google in situations like this, but the biggest is on users who haven’t learned even the most basic thing to protect themselves.

is not the supervision of the application at apple, very strict?
scammers are really unsettling and this time they were able to get into the list of apps in the apple store, what a surprise. Apple seems must be able to provide an answer to their negligence.

While fake apps aren't really anything new to us, there's actually something slightly different in this specific case— the fact that this scam app is on the Apple App Store. Most of such cases far mostly(probably even 99%) occur on the Android Play Store.

WTF kind of PR response is this? A total of 1.6$ Million have been stolen through a fake app they have on their own app store and they aren't showing any kind of action for letting a fake Trezor app be available for download? Seriously a lot of people are too comfortable downloading things straight without looking for reviews and the rating as they trust both Google and Apple to have screened everything yet there is still a bunch of scams and fake apps popping around their app stores, the sad thing about here is both companies don't respond to their own users who got victimized by these fake apps. That's why if I am downloading apps I don't search it on the app store but go to the developer's website and click their app's link in their just for the peace of my mind.

Even with all the precautions the world if we install a phishing software or an application we mess up everything and this is the sole reason using phone to store any of your valuables is the best option and i would advice anyone from doing these blunders. It is unfortunate that someone would loose everything just because they installed some application in the apple store and they need to take responsibility for including phishing applications in their store while they take actions against some applications immediately for minor infractions.

Common stuff that you would really experienced if you are a fan of downloading something without taking any precaution or being too careless on installing things came online.

You know that you do have something important on your mobile or pc then you should be at least aware that downloading something neither can be safe or bad thats why further in depth
analysis would really be needed.You should make at least yourself a little bit paranoid when it comes to these kind of probabilities and that will surely save you up.

This isnt something new about phishing and malware issues.Once you do get to a point where you are being too careless then that would most likely will happen to you.

Nothing new this is why we have Scam Accusations boards and more to keep awareness to the other member also to the people about the fake application this is the reason why other people give a bad image to the bitcoin or in other coins because of that application which is not a legit or reliable only thing they do is to scam mostly the beginners. To make sure it's safe it's better to research the application and double-check if this is the legit one else report immediately so google or another app store will remove this app. Also, check the developer if the same as the original. AFAIK Apple has better application security than the other brands because they focus on the security for their users.

Yeah but the op or whoever was the victim can't exactly accused anyone since this an app he/she installed on his own accord,
Perhaps he can accuse the dev of the app or Apple for negligence and allowing fake app to be listed on the App store, I doubt if this will generate a positive feedback,
I would believe that downloading an app from any App store should be a lot more secured than downloading from online, this apps should have gone through the necessary security checks before approval to be listed on the App store,  but somehow fake apps still manage to find their way in, very sad.

and its actually takes shit ton of effort to get normal app that's not phishing or scam into the app store, apple must be joking. if any, he deserves to sue apple because if not for their app filtering method that's kinda broken he won't lose all the money.

differentiating nowadays' phishing apps isn't as easy as comparing an apple to orange, sometimes the phising app is very identical to the real app, and in this case the app coming from the app store where it's said to be filtered strictly by apple.

Of course, Android as an OS is far more exposed to malicious applications because almost 72% of smartphones have it - so it makes sense to constantly hear about fake apps in Google Play Store. But that doesn't mean they're not in the Apple Apps Store and that their verification system is any better and more efficient in that regard.

Even if the human factor is involved in checking all apps (and we know that algorithms do this), the one checking should know what it is about - the app in question does not have any malicious code, but only tries to trick the user into entering their seed - you and I would never fall for such a trick, right?

As for the Apple App Store, I believe everyone should read the following article which shows what one of the iOS developers thinks about this topic.

Apple’s App Store is hosting multimillion-dollar scams, says this iOS developer