{"id":6966,"date":"2014-11-03T11:26:59","date_gmt":"2014-11-03T11:26:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tat.reddaisytrading.co.uk\/index.php\/2014\/11\/03\/spy-app-arrest\/"},"modified":"2016-01-07T13:58:18","modified_gmt":"2016-01-07T13:58:18","slug":"spy-app-arrest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2014\/11\/03\/spy-app-arrest\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Spy\u2019 app arrest"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3>FBI arrest Birmingham shop owner for selling app that invades privacy<\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"1\" align=\"middle\" width=\"467\" vspace=\"10\" hspace=\"3\" height=\"184\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/Image\/Gallery\/Hammad-Akbar-467x184.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nAmerican officials arrested Hammad Akbar for selling a mobile phone app that secretly recorded calls and intercepted emails and texts. Called \u2018Stealthgenie\u2019, lawyers for the US Department of Justice described the system as, \u201cexpressly designed for use by stalkers and domestic abusers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nPakistan born Akbar was indicted last month in the first US based case concerning the promotion and sale of a mobile device spyware app. FBI were led to an IT store based in Hall Green where an \u201cuntraceable\u201d app was advertised on its website. <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nInvestigators revealed that 31-year-old had been selling the app for four years, breaking US laws which outlaw spyware technology. <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nIt is usable on Apple\u2019s iPhone, Google\u2019s Android and the Blackberry. <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nThe easy-to-install app\u2019s uses included turning someone\u2019s mobile on or off and recording conversations within a 15-feet radius. The app also recorded phone calls as they were made and hacked into emails, photographs and calendars unbeknownst to the user. <br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nIn order to install the app you need the target\u2019s phone for only a few minutes, it then sent all intercepted messages to the customer\u2019s account and the information could be viewed on any computer with internet access. <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nAccording to the company\u2019s business plan they expected customers who suspected their partners of infidelity to make up 65% of sales. <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\u201cAccording to our market research, the majority chunk of the sales will come from people suspecting their partners to be cheating on them or wanting to keep an eye on them,\u201d The plan outlined.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nAndrew Mccabe, FBI Assistant Director in Charge announced, \u201cThis application allegedly equips potential stalkers and criminals with a means to invade an individual\u2019s confidential communications.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\u201cThey do this, not by breaking into their homes or offices, but by physically installing spyware on unwitting victim\u2019s phones and illegally tracking an individual\u2019s every move.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nAs technology continues to evolve, the FBI will investigate and bring to justice those who use illegal means to monitor and track individuals without their knowledge.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nStealthgenie was first brought to US attention after it was hosted at a data centre operating from Ashburn, Virginia&#13;\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FBI arrest Birmingham shop owner for selling app that invades privacy &#13; American officials arrested Hammad Akbar for selling a mobile phone app that secretly recorded calls and intercepted emails and texts. Called \u2018Stealthgenie\u2019, lawyers for the US Department of Justice described the system as, \u201cexpressly designed for use by stalkers and domestic abusers.\u201d &#13; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11753,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6966\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}