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Lawsuit Claims Top iPhone Games Stole User Data

Posted by Soulskill on from the shake-up-and-down-to-send-credit-card-details dept.

pdclarry writes "Storm8, a maker of some top iPhone games, allegedly stole users' mobile phone numbers, according to a lawsuit filed on November 4. The suit claims that best-selling games made by Storm8 contained secret code that bypassed safeguards built into the iPhone to prevent the unauthorized snooping of user information. There have been other reports of applications copying personally identifiable customer information in the past. The complaint seeks class-action status."

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  1. Clearly an inside job. by Reeses · · Score: 4, Funny

    As strict as the Apple store is about getting actual useful apps in, and screening all kinds of apps based on one or two system calls, clearly the only way this could have happened is if Storm8 has someone on the Apple App Approval Team who they know. Otherwise, how would something like this have gotten past such a stringent code review?

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    1. Re:Clearly an inside job. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      They don't have access to the code. Besides, reviewing the code requires non-trivial technical skills.

      Technical skills. Exactly the sort of thing Mac users don't have.

      "Of the 235 million people in America, only a fraction can use a computer... Introducing Macintosh. For the rest of us." -- Apple Inc.

  2. Re:yeah, right! by E+IS+mC(Square) · · Score: 4, Funny

    Apparently, having the word 'iphone' in the app name is harmful, but allowing some other app to steal user data is okay - as long as it does not have the name 'iphone' in the app name.

    But it's apple!! They can't do no wrong!!

  3. Re:Big Surprise... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Oh the fools! If only they'd built it with 6001 hulls! When will they learn?

  4. Re:Big Surprise... by CharlyFoxtrot · · Score: 4, Funny

    If you want infallible maybe they should get the pope to do app reviews.

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  5. Re:note to Apple by ErikZ · · Score: 2, Funny

    ...
    Are you saying Apache is Murder-proof?

    How did they test that?

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