Chinese Mobile-Ad Company Apologizes for Code That Allowed Access to Apple User Data

A Chinese mobile-advertising company has apologized for disseminating code that allowed hundreds of applications that run on Apple’s iOS mobile operating system to access users’ personal data, in violation of Apple’s App Store policy. Guangzhou Youmi Mobile Technology offered its “sincere apologies” to affected developers after Apple said it had removed offerings from the App Store that were found to be collecting and extracting email addresses, device identification and other private information.