Siddaramaiah’s app disappears from Google store

Team Udayavani, Mar 30, 2018, 11:18 AM IST

New Delhi/Bengaluru: Days after the authority application of the Congress party vanished from the Google Play Store, Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah’s application has disappeared. This comes after a man on Twitter affirmed that the application was pitching individual information of the users to a private company. 

On tapping the link that surface after a Google search, a message peruses, “This content is not available in your country yet. We’re working to bring the content you love to more countries as quickly as possible. It would be ideal if you return again soon.” 

French security scientist Baptiste Robert, who is known by his Twitter username Elliot Alderson, said that the name, telephone number, date of birth, sex of a user is sent to a privatel company. 

Alderson tweeted the following:

“1/ People asked me if this tweet is true or not. Let’s talk about this app,” 

1/ People asked me if this tweet is true or not. Let’s talk about this app. https://t.co/XuTWC0pm6r

— Elliot Alderson (@fs0c131y) March 29, 2018

“2/ Every time, I open the app I have this pop up: “Internet speed is too slow”. As a consequence, I was unable to make a dynamic analysis and so confirm the tweet above,” 

2/ Every time, I open the app I have this pop up: “Internet speed is too slow”. As a consequence, I was unable to make a dynamic analysis and so confirm the tweet above. pic.twitter.com/fZT6Z7Ein9

— Elliot Alderson (@fs0c131y) March 29, 2018

“3/ I decompiled the app and found this code in the registration method. During the registration, the name, phone number, date of birth, gender of the user is send to http://citizenoutreachapp.in/api/register_user.php ..”

3/ I decompiled the app and found this code in the registration method. During the registration, the name, phone number, date of birth, gender of the user is send to https://t.co/mYIwWi6Pf1. pic.twitter.com/PX2TdMAXnS

— Elliot Alderson (@fs0c131y) March 29, 2018

On March 26, the Congress party seemed to have taken their application ‘With INC’ off the Google Store and on Apple App Store. 

The Congress party ended up in trouble after Chris Wylie, former director informant of the whole scam, named the grand old party as one of the firm’s clients in his disposition before the British parliament.