PUBG Mobile, TikTok and 53 other iOS apps are still snooping your clipboard data
A few days back TikTok was in headlines for its suspicious behaviour of snooping on the iPhone's clipboard. While the company is yet to fix this, a couple of researchers have found an additional 53 iOS apps that work similarly.
Ars Technica reported that these 53 apps discovered by researchers Talal Haj Bakry and Tommy Mysk in March have still not stopped snooping on the iOS device's clipboards. These apps peek on the devices saved clipboard, which may have sensitive data like IDs and passwords, every time they are opened or closed.
The list not only includes some shady apps that you never heard earlier but for some popular apps as well, few of them you might be using regularly. These share the data found in the clipboard with the other nearby device that uses the same Apple ID. The report also suggests that was made live in March, 10% Happier: Meditation and Hotel Tonight promised to eliminate this behaviour. TikTok also promised the same but did not fix it yet.
Here are the names of those Apps and the Bundle IDs.
News:
ABC News — com.abcnews.ABCNews
Al Jazeera English — ajenglishiphone
CBC News — ca.cbc.CBCNews
CBS News — com.H443NM7F8H.CBSNews
CNBC — com.nbcuni.cnbc.cnbcrtipad
Fox News — com.foxnews.foxnews
News Break — com.particlenews.newsbreak
New York Times — com.nytimes.NYTimes
NPR — org.npr.nprnews
ntv Nachrichten — de.n-tv.n-tvmobil
Reuters — com.thomsonreuters.Reuters
Russia Today — com.rt.RTNewsEnglish
Stern Nachrichten — de.grunerundjahr.sternneu
The Economist — com.economist.lamarr
The Huffington Post — com.huffingtonpost.HuffingtonPost
The Wall Street Journal — com.dowjones.WSJ.ipad
Vice News — com.vice.news.VICE-News
Games:
8 Ball Pool — com.miniclip.8ballpoolmult
AMAZE!!! — com.amaze.game
Bejeweled — com.ea.ios.bejeweledskies
Block Puzzle —Game.BlockPuzzle
Classic Bejeweled — com.popcap.ios.Bej3
Classic Bejeweled HD —com.popcap.ios.Bej3HD
FlipTheGun — com.playgendary.flipgun
Fruit Ninja — com.halfbrick.FruitNinjaLite
Golfmasters — com.playgendary.sportmasterstwo
Letter Soup — com.candywriter.apollo7
Love Nikki — com.elex.nikki
My Emma — com.crazylabs.myemma
Plants vs. Zombies Heroes — com.ea.ios.pvzheroes
Pooking – Billiards City — com.pool.club.billiards.city
PUBG Mobile — com.tencent.ig
Tomb of the Mask — com.happymagenta.fromcore
Tomb of the Mask: Color — com.happymagenta.totm2
Total Party Kill — com.adventureislands.totalpartykill
Watermarbling — com.hydro.dipping
Social Networking:
TikTok — com.zhiliaoapp.musically
ToTalk — totalk.gofeiyu.com
Tok — com.SimpleDate.Tok
Truecaller — com.truesoftware.TrueCallerOther
Viber — com.viber
Weibo — com.sina.weibo
Zoosk — com.zoosk.Zoosk
Other:
10% Happier: Meditation — com.changecollective.tenpercenthappier
5-0 Radio Police Scanner — com.smartestapple.50radiofree
Accuweather — com.yourcompany.TestWithCustomTabs
AliExpress Shopping App — com.alibaba.iAliexpress
Bed Bath & Beyond — com.digby.bedbathbeyond
Dazn — com.dazn.theApp
Hotels.com — com.hotels.HotelsNearMe
Hotel Tonight — com.hoteltonight.prod
Overstock — com.overstock.app
Pigment – Adult Coloring Book — com.pixite.pigment
Recolor Coloring Book to Color — com.sumoing.ReColor
Sky Ticket — de.sky.skyonline
The Weather Network — com.theweathernetwork.weathereyeiphone