Apple banned these iPhone apps following a security breach

Clark Howard ^ | Tuesday, October 20 th 2015

[Swordmaker]

Apple has removed nearly 300 apps from the iTunes store because they secretly gathered personal information from users.

The apps were made in China and allowed a Chinese ad company to display their ads inside the apps. The software was designed to gather people's email addresses and iPhone serial numbers.
    
Apple says it will no longer accept apps from the developer. Most of the apps are games, including the popular Angry Birds 2.

Here's a full list from BGR.com:

 

 

 

 

air2

AmHexinForPad

Angry Birds 2

baba

BiaoQingBao

CamCard

CamScanner

CamScanner Lite

CamScanner Pro

Card Safe

China Unicom Mobile Office

ChinaUnicom3.x

CITIC Bank move card space

CSMBP-AppStore

CuteCUT

DataMonitor

Didi Chuxing

Eyes Wide

FlappyCircle

Flush

Freedom Battle

golfsense

golfsensehd

guaji_gangtai en

Guitar Master

High German map

Himalayan

Hot stock market

I called MT

I called MT 2

IFlyTek input

IHexin

immtdchs

InstaFollower

installer

iOBD2

iVMS-4500

Jane book

jin

Lazy weekend

Lifesmart

Mara Mara

Marital bed

Medicine to force

Mercury

Micro Channel

Microblogging camera

MobileTicket

MoreLikers2

MSL070

MSL108

Musical.ly

NetEase

nice dev

OPlayer

OPlayer Lite

PDFReader

PDFReader Free

Perfect365

Pocket billing

PocketScanner

Poor tour

Quick asked the doctor

Quick Save

QYER

Railway 12306

SaveSnap

SegmentFault

snapgrab copy

Stocks open class

SuperJewelsQuest2

Telephone attribution assistant

The driver drops

The Kitchen

Three new board

ting

TinyDeal.com

Wallpapers10000

Watercress reading

WeChat

WeLoop

WhiteTile

WinZip

WinZip Sector

WinZip Standard

[Swordmaker]

Note that the Angry Birds 2 is only the Chinese Translation of that popular game. I note that this list seems to be identical to the same apps that Apple removed from the App Store for having been written with the XcodeGhost form of Xcode last month. . . so I am suspicious of this list. — Swordmaker

[Swordmaker]

This is a list of the supposed Apps removed from the Chinese App Store for imbedding ads which mined customer emails and device serial numbers. This sounds strangely like the XcodeGhost exploit that hit China's Apple App store and other jailbroken app stores last month, and the list seems to be the same as those as were pulled temporarily then, such as the Chinese translation of Angry Birds 2. I am suspicious of this list being a re-hash of that story. — PING!

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[Swordmaker]

Thanks for the heads up, Scutter

[JoeProBono]

Wonder what the Chinese have planted on Google Play for android phone owners.