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by Smirnoff 2803 days 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.”

2 comments

That is truly terrible! I hope you took legal action and are still garnishing that man's wages to this very day.
Damn, I wonder what that kids childhood was like to form that kind of dishonest person.