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Smirnoff | 7 years ago

Our Android developer silently inserted cryptocurrency mining code into the new release, pushed the clean version to github, but submitted the infected version to Google Play.

After a few weeks Google caught that and banned our app. We lost thousands of customers and years of work and had to start over with a brand new app. Years later the infected app is still mining cryptocurrency because users ignore Google’s malware warning message and keep using the app.

PS: I should have said “our FORMER Android developer.”

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amingilani|7 years ago

That is truly terrible! I hope you took legal action and are still garnishing that man's wages to this very day.

abledon|7 years ago

Damn, I wonder what that kids childhood was like to form that kind of dishonest person.