Google Chrome extensions with 32 million collective downloads have found to be part of a spyware effort that has been stealing user data. Google was notified last month by researches about the malicious nature of these 70 extensions, after which it took them down from the Chrome Web Store.
The extensions disguised themselves as file convertors and some, ironically, alerted users for malicious websites. In reality, the extensions were stealing browsing history and user data. With 32 million downloads in total for these 70 extensions, it highlights important issues for Google that need to be resolved in order to protect user privacy and security when downloading extensions for Chrome.
