iPhone data leak costly for users and developers

Does your company have an iPhone app? Did you hear what happened to the popular radio show This American Life? After using the app, the show experienced a whopping ten-fold increase in traffic, and a whopping Internet bill to go with it. But it wasn’t real traffic. Turns out, a bug in iOS 6.0.0 was turning those phones into bandwidth hogs, using much larger amounts of data to complete the same task.