Do you play iMobsters, WorldWar, Racing Live, Kingdoms, Ninjas Live, Zombies, Rockstars, or Vampires on your iPhone? Chances are your phone number and personal contact information has been stolen by the game company that made all those games, Storm8.

In a lawsuit filed recently, Storm8 has been accused of writing the games… “in such a way that it automatically accesses, collects, and transmits the wireless telephone number of each iPhone user who downloads any Storm8 game.”

Storm8 makes these games and hands out a “free” crippled version of the games as well as a paid “full featured” version. You pretty much level up in any of their games by slaving away at it throughout the day doing menial tasks or pay real cash to buy things to get ahead in the game.

The article on BoingBoing also says “The number farming was not disclosed to players until an acknowledgment in August that described it as a “bug.” The lawsuit claims that only “very specific and specialized software code” could do so, however, and seeks injunctive relief and damages.”

A bug? A bug crashes your game. Causes little discolored artifacts to appear on screen. A bug might even suddenly close the app and send you back to the iPhone home screen. But to grab your specific information? To go that protected area of the iPhone consistently by mistake? No. I’m not buying it.

So why does a game company want your wireless phone number and your contact information? And especially without your permission?

Here’s the main article from BoingBoing here.

a followup on the CONSUMERIST website here.

and a link to a PDF file of the lawsuit here.

BoingBoing says Storm8 “hasn’t returned inquiries” since this story broke a few days ago.

So if you have any of these games on your iPhone, delete them now. You never know what other information their “bug” has been looking at.