Perfect storm: Experts blame the security breach on Apple's App Store on a perfect confluence of ignorance on Apple's part with complacency and a tendency to use shortcuts on the part of Chinese Internet companies.
BEIJING: China's "Great Firewall" may have been partly to blame for the first major attack on Apple Inc's App Store, but experts also point the finger at lax security procedures of some big-name Chinese tech firms and how Apple itself supports developers in its second biggest market.
A malicious program, dubbed XcodeGhost, hit hundreds – possibly thousands – of Apple iOS apps, including products from some of China's most successful tech companies used by hundreds of millions of people.
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