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Android Wallpaper app sends personal data to China

Before we go throwing stones out of our glass houses, remember that flashlight app that turned the iPhone into a wireless router? Well that wasn’t so bad. Android’s feeling the pain from a wallpaper app that sends your personal data from your phone to some sketchy servers in China.

It was downloaded by millions of innocent people. That is all. 

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