Susan Harvey, a woman from Madera, California, recently filed a lawsuit against Google alleging that she lost thousands of dollars over 16 months due to her Google Play store account being hacked.

She reported the incident to Google but Google reps did not believe her. She convinced them that the transactions were fraudulent, but Google has not as yet reimbursed her.

According to her attorney, the fraudulent transactions occurred between April 15, 2013 and May 2014, costing her thousands of dollars. She contacted Google and Bank of America and filed a police report, but both companies still refused to refund her the money.

Harvey still hasn't received a reimbursement in spite of the fact that “Google finally acknowledged that she clearly did not effectuate the transactions."

Harvey alleges that a “security vulnerability” in Google's Play store “allowed hackers to obtain her Information and subsequently post fraudulent transactions” to her bank account.

Google is dropping the automatic malware scanning and is now turning to human-driven review of apps and updates.

Source: Arstechnica