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Apple has pulled 250 apps from App Store that were stealing personal info

article published on 21 October, 2015

Apple has quietly removed 250 apps from the App Store after it was discovered that the Youmi ad network was actually stealing private information including email addresses. Most of the apps came from Chinese-based devs, and all used the Youmi SDK to build in advertising. Unfortunately, Youmi was also secretly taking user info and uploading it to their servers. The move follows a research ... [ read the full article ]

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hearme0
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_ 		21. October 2015 @ 12:35 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
GD Chinese!

What a P.I.T.A. people!

Android store needs to address this too because the "Market" is a wild west free-for-all.
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Notcow
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_ 		23. October 2015 @ 19:25 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
I am a huge Android fan, and advertise it every day over iOS...but it's gotta be said that Apple's security, though highly restrictive, is bar-none. I don't know what SourceDNA is, but hopefully they were compensated by Apple for this discovery.
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