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iPhone game dev accused of stealing players' phone numbers
Boing Boing — Iphone game developer Storm8 exploited an "electronic backdoor" to surreptitiously learn the phone numbers of players, according to a class action lawsuit filed in San Francisco. Filed on behalf of Lywood, WA resident Michael Turner, the suit claims that the practice is not authorized by Apple and involves the execution of "malicious software code." "Storm8 has written the software for all its games in such a way that it automatically accesses, collects, and transmits the wireless telephone number of each iPhone user who downloads any Storm8 game," the suit alleges. " ... ...

Class action suit filed against iPhone games maker
Macsimum News — ... has been filed against Storm8, the developer of iPhone video games such as iMobsters, Vampires Live, and World War. The suite claims the company collected the phone numbers of millions of its customers without their consent. ...

App Developer Sued for Stealing Customers' iPhone Numbers
Switched — Filed under: Cell Phones, Video Games, iPhoneStorm8, 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 ...

Lawsuit: iPhone app developer Storm8 stole phone numbers, user data
The Inquisitr » Technology — ... A federal lawsuit filed Wednesday claims that popular App Store app developer Storm8 may have bypassed safeguards in order to obtain data such as phone numbers via games downloaded over 20 million times. ...

Lawsuit claims iPhone games stole phone numbers
Macworld — Posted on by Lex Friedman , Macworld.com Browse the App Store for  developer Storm8’s many popular iPhone games, and you’ll encounter the same message over and over again: “The item you’ve requested is not currently available in the US store.” Why have Storm8’s games—each of which, the company claims, has reached the top ten list for free apps—seemingly left the building? I’m just spitballing here, but my guess is that there’s some correlation between the removal of all of Storm8’s games and a pending class-action lawsuit filed against the developers , claiming that each of the ...

iPhone Game Maker Apologizes for Stealing Phone Numbers, Calls Lawsuit "Meritless"
ReadWriteWeb — ... A federal lawsuit filed on Wednesday is charging an iPhone development firm with collecting users' cell phone numbers without their permission. The developer, a game-making firm by the name of Storm8, is the entity behind popular games like iMobsters, World War, Racing Live, Vampires Live, Kingdoms Live, Zombies Live, and Rockstars Live, among others. The company has five titles ranked in the top 50 free apps list in iTunes and seven titles in the top 100. ...

Storm8 says phone-number lawsuit lacks merit
Macworld — Posted on by Lex Friedman , Macworld.com On Monday, we covered a pending class-action lawsuit filed against Storm8 , developer of numerous popular iPhone games. The suit alleges that Storm8's games used “backdoor” methods to snag players’ iPhone numbers. In an official statement on the company's forum , Storm8 attempts to clarify just why the heck it was gathering phone numbers, and just what the heck it was doing with them. The short version: accidentally, and nothing. The long version goes like this: Early in the development process of Storm8's initial games, the company ...