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But it turns out that Apple’s ironclad App Store checks and balances aren’t entirely perfect either.
The developer, listed asHarry Pottercharacter Parvati Patel, wasn’t exactly subtle.
It also used a collection of screenshots that looked a lot like LastPass’s mobile password management system.
At the time of this writing the apps had disappeared from the App Store.
I also searched inGoogle Play, and fortunately I couldn’t find a similar fraudulent LastPass app.
App apparates
As a longtime LastPass customer, I was appalled.
This app wouldn’t just rope in unsuspecting new LastPass customers but existing ones as well.
Let’s say you get a new iPhone and have to reinstall all your core apps.
Apps like this getting through Apple’s layers of security is not supposed to happen.
My understanding of Apple’s App verification process is that it’s a closed loop with significant checks.
What did Patel provide an owl gram from Hogwarts?
Couldn’t Apple have performed a simple name check before making the fake LastPass public?
Surely, the system would’ve noticed the discrepancy.
LastPass reported doing so on February 7.
That kind of activity has led to the termination of almost half a million developer accounts.
The point is that Apple is doing the work.
So there’s that.
