{"id":237562,"date":"2026-05-22T03:16:22","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T08:16:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/apple-blocked-over-11-billion-in-app-store-fraud-in-6-years"},"modified":"2026-05-22T03:16:22","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T08:16:22","slug":"apple-blocked-over-11-billion-in-app-store-fraud-in-6-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/apple-blocked-over-11-billion-in-app-store-fraud-in-6-years","title":{"rendered":"Apple blocked over $11 billion in App Store fraud in 6 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/apple-blocked-over-11-billion-in-app-store-fraud-in-6-years2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Apple revealed that it blocked over $11 billion in fraudulent App Store transactions over the last six years, more than $2.2 billion in potentially fraudulent App Store transactions in 2025 alone.<\/p>\n<p>In a Wednesday press release, the tech giant said it rejected over 2 million problematic app submissions last year and blocked more than 1.1 billion fraudulent account creations.<\/p>\n<p>Apple also terminated 193,000 developer accounts due to fraud concerns, rejected more than 138,000 developer enrollments, and deactivated an additional 40.4 million customer accounts suspected of fraud and abuse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple revealed that it blocked over $11 billion in fraudulent App Store transactions over the last six years, more than $2.2 billion in potentially fraudulent App Store transactions in 2025 alone. In a Wednesday press release, the tech giant said it rejected over 2 million problematic app submissions last year and blocked more than 1.1 [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-237562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237562\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}