Here are all the apps affected by the 'XcodeGhost' attack on Apple's App Store

Lucy England

Sep 21, 2015, 15:55 IST

Reuters/Stephen Lam

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Hundreds of incredibly popular iOS apps have been affected by the first major attack on Apple's App Store.

Apple started cleaning up the App Store yesterday after several cyber security firms found that a malicious program called XcodeGhost had been embedded in hundreds of legitimate apps.

Reuters reports that some Chinese developers accidentally used a counterfeit version of Apple's Xcode app-building software which contained malware that was able to infect iOS apps.

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According to Californian security firm Palo Alto Networks, the tainted version of Xcode had been downloaded from a Chinese server because doing so was faster than using Apple's US servers.

Palo Alto Networks has published a list of some of the infected apps in Mandarin, which we have listed below.