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Apple had to remove more than 300 malware-infected apps from its app store after the damaged version of its developer tools led to some of Chinese apps that leak the users’ personal information to hackers and outside servers. This past Sunday, the company revealed it had...

Hackers have finally managed to infiltrate Apple’s App Store.

Among the other impacted apps were Didi Chuxing, which is the leading taxi-hailing service in China. (NASDAQ:AAPL) provides developers to build apps for iOS.

The malicious code spread through a counterfeit version of Apple’s Xcode tools used to create apps for its iPhones and iPads, according to the company.

On Monday, Apple confirmed that dozens of apps infected with malware had been unwittingly published to the App Store.

To some, it might seem rather insulting especially because the app provides a provocative reminder for the user to recycle their Android phone for free at any Apple store. Of course, if Apple doesn’t want to receive a ton of negative feedback from unhappy users.

Any user who has installed and launched these compromised apps will be a victim of these tracking codes.

The new App Store on the Apple TV is open to third party apps in the same that iOS is-and the developer beta is open today.