Cydia app store will be closed until the end of the year

Cydia creator Jay Freeman, better known under the name Saurik, announced this after the detection of internal errors repositories capable of causing leakage of user data.

Error exposes only the users risk downloading a paid add repositories from untrusted. However, as stated Freeman, data leakage payment accounts have been avoided.

In addition, Freeman announced the possible closure of Cydia until the end of this year. Among the reasons, in addition to any security problems, the founder of the service called loss of motivation to maintain an unprofitable project.

The first step has been taken, therefore, to buy new jailbreak tweaks in Cydia anymore. And if you have a jailbroken iPhone or iPad, you can not download tweaks from the Cydia Store. In this case, the ability to download add-ons bought previously stayed.

Cydia service was launched 10 years ago, shortly after the break of the first iPhone. He offered to users not only access to the closed iOS file system (through the procedure jailbreak) but bypassing the App Store lock, which allows to install paid apps is free.