A lawsuit filed against an iPhone game development company claims that the firm used a backdoor method to access, collect and transmit the phone numbers of the iPhone on which the games was installed.

Storm8 is the target of the suit, filed in the U.S. District Court of Northern California by Michael Turner of Lynnwood, Washington reports The Register. The complaint alleges that Storm8 violated the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, California’s computer crime law and other statutes. Storm8 claimed that the collected numbers were the result of a bug, which has since been fixed.

Storm8 iPhone/iPod Touch titles include Ninjas Live, Zombies Live, iMobsters, Racing Live, Rockstars Live, Vampires Live, World War and Kingdoms Live.

In a post on the subject on the Storm8 website forums, an admin wrote, “I want to assure everyone that we do not collect the phone numbers of our users. It is safe to install and play all of our games on both iPod Touch and iPhone alike.”

It appears as well that at least some games have been pulled from the iTunes Store.  Currently only “loyalty points” for Kingdoms Live and Vampires Live are available. No other Storm8 games are offered.