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Robotron [soylentnews.org] writes:

Over 70 data harvesting apps in the Chrome Web Store [reuters.com] have been discovered by researchers at Awake Security [awakesecurity.com]. Chrome users had downloaded the malware some 32 million times [canberratimes.com.au]; several of the apps boasted of privacy protecting features, but instead forwarded Chrome user's browsing data to a network of 15,000 websites hosted by Israeli web registrar Galcomm. Scott Westover, a representative for Google, had this to say: “When we are alerted of extensions in the Web Store that violate our policies, we take action and use those incidents as training material."

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