CEO indicted for company's alleged mobile spyware app

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http://www.computerworld.com/article/2688809/ceo-indicted-for-companys-alleged-mobile-spyware-app.html

By Grant Gross
IDG News Service
Sept 29, 2014

The CEO of a Pakistani company has been indicted in the U.S. for selling a 
product called StealthGenie that buyers could use to monitor calls, texts, 
videos and other communications on other people's mobile phones, the U.S. 
Department of Justice said.

The indictment of Hammad Akbar, 31, of Lahore, Pakistan, represents the 
first time the DOJ has brought a criminal case related to the marketing 
and sale of an alleged mobile spyware app, the DOJ said in a press release 
Monday.

Akbar is CEO of InvoCode, the company selling StealthGenie online. Akbar 
is among the creators of StealthGenie, which could intercept 
communications to and from mobile phones, including Apple, Android and 
BlackBerry devices, the DOJ said.

StealthGenie was undetectable by most people whose phones it was installed 
on and was advertised as being untraceable, the DOJ said.

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