Hundreds of iOS apps have been pulled from the App Store, following a report that a group of applications were extracting users' personally identifiable information.
The pulled apps had been using a software development kit from Chinese company Youmi, which accessed the personal information through private APIs. Information collected included email addresses associated with users' Apple IDs, device and peripheral serial numbers, and a list of apps installed on their devices.
According to a report released by analytics service SourceDNA and reported on by TechCrunch, for some time Youmi has apparently been testing what sort of information-gathering features it can get through Apple's App Review process.
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The pulled apps had been using a software development kit from Chinese company Youmi, which accessed the personal information through private APIs. Information collected included email addresses associated with users' Apple IDs, device and peripheral serial numbers, and a list of apps installed on their devices.
According to a report released by analytics service SourceDNA and reported on by TechCrunch, for some time Youmi has apparently been testing what sort of information-gathering features it can get through Apple's App Review process.
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