Apple Execs chose to keep 128 million iPhones quiet September 2015, Apple managers had a dilemma at hand: Should 128 million iPhone users be notified of whether or not they had the worst massive iOS compromise on record? In the end, all the evidence shows that they chose to remain silent. Ars Technica This story first appeared Ars Technica, a reliable source for technology news, technology policy analysis, reviews, and more. Ars is the parent company of WIRED, Condé Nast. The researchers first created a massive hack 40 App Store found malicious apps, that’s the number mushroom up to 4,000 while there were more researchers. The apps contained code that was part of a botnet that stole information about potentially sensitive iPhone and iPad users.