Apple Says App Store Shut Down 1 Billion Fake Accounts in 2025

Apple ’s App Store prevented $2.2 billion in fraudulent transactions last year. That’s according to the tech giant’s annual fraud prevention report , issued Wednesday (May 20) and showing that Apple has stopped more than $11.2 billion in fraudulent transactions in the last six years. Apple credits this to a “multilayered” defense system, which melds “expert human review and advanced machine learning technologies to detect and stop malicious activity,” such as the theft of customers’ financial in