Someone elses updates appearing in my app store???

Question

So today I opened my app store and I had two updates. One for final cut and other for angry birds which i've never installed on my system. I thought what the heck and pressed update on angry birds, but then a window popped up that told me to log in with some random russian account. So im thinking that was the account who that angry birds update belongs to. My question is WTH? How the heck did this happen? How is there someone elses updates in my app store? I can't even hide that update... How to remove it?

Answer 1

When a stranger's Apple ID appears on your Mac in conjunction with an update for an app that you have never installed, you have a pirated app on your Mac. This is the closed Apple ID of a know and admitted Russian app pirated. This pirated app has been cracked with the MAS receipt from a free app, often Angry Birds, acquired by the person whose Apple ID you see. However, the pirated app is not Angry Birds. Angry Birds is not the app that you are looking for on your Mac.
You may or may not have realized that it was a pirated app when you installed it. You may have believed that it was a trail version or a "free" version.
All MAS apps have a MAS receipt in their app bundle. Check any app acquired from the MAS. Right click on the app's icon in your Apps folder and choose Show package contents. In the Contents folder is a _MASReceipt folder and in that folder is the coded MAS receipt. It has the Apple ID of the MAS account that bought/acquired the app from the MAS. It is that receipt that the MAS uses to alert you that an app has an update. There would not be a notice of an update with someone else's Apple ID showing in the MAS on your Mac, if there was not an app with a receipt from this person's account somewhere on your Mac.
Download the free app FindAnyFile (FAF);
http://apps.tempel.org/FindAnyFile/
This app is easier to use and seems to be more powerful than Spotlight. Open FAF and in the box type _MASReceipt and press Find. It should come up with a list of every app on the Mac with a MAS receipt. Compare the apps with receipts in FAF's list with your purchased apps list in the Mac App Store. The odd app out should be the pirated app.