Credit: Glenn CHAPMAN / AFP Application Pokemon Go
Pokémon have invaded the planet. In any case, they invaded our smartphones and even before the official launch of the Pokémon Go application in the world. In the US, the phenomenon has grown so much since its release on July 6, the application has become most downloaded iPhone and that exceeded Tinder on Android . only, while Nintendo saw its shares soar with the success of Pokemon Go, some users point a particularly disturbing security hole.
in fact, according to Adam Reeve, who launched the alert, would grant the application, without asking, unlimited access to Google accounts users on iOS. by automatically associating the player’s account, the augmented reality game have access to all his emails, documents stored in the cloud, its photos, its history … in short, go in search of Pikachu seems a little risky in terms of personal data security. On Android, however, nothing has challenged the players, which seems to prove that this is just a bug in the version for iPhone. A temporary bug, at that. Indeed, some have quickly noticed that the application no longer appeared to be associated with their Google accounts. Niantic Labs, which developed the game has acknowledged that it was a mistake that would be set for Pokemon Go not demand full access to Google Accounts users on iOS, but kept to a minimum . Maybe this was ultimately a bad turn, still missed, Team Rocket …
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