Japanese police arrested five mobile applications developers for creating and embedding a virus into smartphone applications. About 90,000 smartphones users were infected with a virus lurking in applications they downloaded. Police later found that developers stole more than 10 million pieces of personal information from users mobile. Violators face up to three years in prison or fines of up to 500,000 yen (S$7645) Creating viruses for computers and smartphones was criminalized under the revised Penal Code that was enacted in July last year.
Source: https://thehackernews.com/2012/10/japanese-android-developers-arrested.html