The app, there are now many smartphones and tablets, for all tastes and for all purposes ... even for thieves.

Yes, exactly, you have really got it right!
It is indeed news of the last few hours, very alarming, the spread of GrabMe, an app created by a young hacker to provide a service to the thieves, to make life easier for those who intend to rob a house.
GrabMe uses shared data on a daily basis by people on various social networks, such as mail from holiday locations, tweet, geolocalizzazioni and so on and so goal, to enable the thieves to identify empty homes giving them the opportunity to choose which rob homes showing the various "points of interest" on the map.
The hacker app creator has well thought of trying to increase their revenue opportunities by making available his invention to anyone by putting the website online, but now blocked from which until a few hours ago it was possible without problems download the application.
Clearly an app of this type never come on the official App Store for the main platforms for smartphones and tablets, Android and iOS in the first place, but the fact that it was available for download for a certain period of time and that do not currently it is possible to quantify the number of malicious internet users who actually downloaded the application and therefore could use them is alarming.
In more detail, but considering the situation as things are not available and taking into account the operation of the app's concerns are far from few waiting for more information, especially on the part of the competent authorities, the council, meanwhile, surely to avoid sharing on social networking details referring to its geographical location and the activities carried out from home.

From Geekissimo