Samsung is banning and pulling smart TV apps that secretly shared owners’ home internet connections with total strangers. The company confirmed the crackdown after new research found some apps could quietly turn a Samsung TV into a tunnel for someone else’s web traffic. One of the flagged apps was a simple Pac-Man game that Samsung had featured in its own Editor’s Choice section. That code lets a stranger, sometimes a business scraping data from the web, tunnel their traffic through your TV’s internet connection instead of their own. In the meantime, it’s worth checking your Samsung TV for apps you don’t recognize, especially free games, and deleting anything suspicious.