Downloading and sideloading modified apps outside the official App Store carries several major risks:
Worse followed. A week later, his Instagram was hacked. Then strange purchases appeared on his credit card—small ones, $4.99 here, $9.99 there. He traced them back to the sideloaded IPA. The developer certificate he’d trusted wasn’t just for Tinder—it had background permissions. The cracked IPA had a data stealer baked in, quietly harvesting his session tokens, contacts, and saved passwords. tinder plus ipa link