Patrick Wardle has recently posted an article detailing the misbehavior of an app named Adware Doctor, which is exfiltrating the following data: (This is referred to as exfiltrating the data.) Some of this data is actually being sent to Chinese servers, which may not be subject to the same stringent requirements around storage and protection of personally identifiable information like organizations based in the US or EU. Several security researchers have independently found different apps that are collecting sensitive user data and uploading it to servers controlled by the developer. There is a concerning trend lately in the Mac App Store.
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