Hackers compromise messaging app Viber's App Store listing

After targeting the website of popular
messaging app Viber earlier this week,
hackers seem to have compromised
app's listing on the App Store as well.
The Description and What's New
section of Viber 3.0 on the App Store
has been modified to to read "We
created this app to spy on you, PLEASE
DOWNLOAD IT!", as first reported by
9to5mac . The compromised listing was
still live in the App Store at the time
of filing this report. It's not clear if
the damage is limited to app's
description only, or if the app itself
has been compromised in some way as
well.
It's not clear at this point if this
latest attack is the work of the same
group that compromised Viber's website
earlier this week. On Tuesday, reports
emerged that Syrian Electronic Army
had defaced Viber's support forum and
placed the following message:
Dear All Viber Users,
The Israeli-based "Viber" is
spying and tracking you
We weren't able to hack all Viber
systems, but most of it is
designed for spying and tracking
Screenshot of a hacked system:
[screenshot]
Viber later responded that one of its
employee's fell victim to a phishing
attach and attackers could gain access
to customer support panel and support
administration system, insisting that no
sensitive user data was exposed. Here's
Viber's statement in full:
Today the Viber Support site was
defaced after a Viber employee
unfortunately fell victim to an
email phishing attack. The
phishing attack allowed access to
two minor systems: a customer
support panel and a support
administration system.
Information from one of these
systems was posted on the
defaced page.
It is very important to emphasize
that no sensitive user data was
exposed and that Viber's
databases were not "hacked".
Sensitive, private user information
is kept in a secure system that
cannot be accessed through this
type of attack and is not part of
our support system.
We take this incident very
seriously and we are working
right now to return the support
site to full service for our users.
Additionally, we want to assure all
of our users that we are
reviewing all of our policies to
make sure that no such incident is
repeated in the future.