<story><title>Virtual Keyboard Developer Leaked 31M Client Records</title><url>https://mackeepersecurity.com/post/virtual-keyboard-developer-leaked-31-million-of-client-records</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tambourine_man</author><text>These guys write Mac malware for a living and use nefarious tactics to fool users into installing it, while making it really hard to uninstall. I&amp;#x27;ve seen it on the Mac of many less technically inclined people.&lt;p&gt;Things like: “your Mac has been infected, click here” while the user is downloading some torrent or watching porn. Faking the system&amp;#x27;s dialog boxes, using chatbots “is your Mac slow?”, etc.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m amazed Apple hasn&amp;#x27;t banned them from the Mac App Store. I don&amp;#x27;t know how these people sleep at night.</text></comment>
<story><title>Virtual Keyboard Developer Leaked 31M Client Records</title><url>https://mackeepersecurity.com/post/virtual-keyboard-developer-leaked-31-million-of-client-records</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>lamlam</author><text>&amp;gt;When researchers installed Ai.Type they were shocked to discover that users must allow “Full Access” to all of their data stored on the testng iPhone, including all keyboard data past and present. It raises the question of why would a keyboard and emoji application need to gather the entire data of the user’s phone or tablet?&lt;p&gt;I have a suspicion that due to how cheap bulk storage is these days, that companies collect as much information as they can get away with in hopes that _maybe_ it will be useful one day. That mixed with poor security practices is just going to keep leading to these sorts of events happening.</text></comment>