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A fake app masquerading as password manager LastPass just got pulled from the App Store | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)
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[–] TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 9 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

There have been loads of dodgy apps on the app store.

Things inevitably slip through the cracks.

[–] stoy@lemmy.zip -3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I never said that this is the first dodgy app in the app store?

I said that this is the first app I have heard about that pretends to be the official app that have gone through the vetting step on the App Store.