App Developer Sued for Stealing Customers’ iPhone Numbers

Filed under: Cell Phones, Video Games, iPhone

Storm8, the developer of popular (but terrible) iPhone games like ‘Vampires Live’ and ‘iMobsters,’ has found itself on the wrong end of a potential class-action lawsuit.

A lawsuit has been filed, on behalf of Washington resident Michael Turner, that alleges Storm8 built its games with a “feature” that automatically sends the phone number of each host iPhone to the developer. Turner is suing on the grounds that this practice is in violation of both the federal Computer Fraud and Abuse Act and California say law, and is pushing to turn it into a class-action suit, on behalf of all Storm8 customers.

Storm8 has admitted to collecting the phone numbers, but denies any real responsibility, attributing the “phone home” function to a simple bug in the code. The company maintains that the glitch has been fixed. Turner countered that a “glitch” couldn’t lead to the collection of phone numbers and that specialized code would have to be purposely placed within the games to have that effect. Not being programmers,we can’t say for certain whether or not the collecting of phone numbers was intentional, but it doesn’t sound like the sort of feature that could be accidentally implemented.

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