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Thousands of iOS apps found to expose user data and leak Stripe keys

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Cybernews researchers found 815,000 hardcoded secrets in source code of 156,000 iOS apps.

The average app's code exposes 5.2 secrets, and 71% of apps leak at least one secret, Cybernews reported.

The biggest problem was Stripe secret keys, which directly control financial transactions.

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