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1. I've heard that play store can be kinda sketchy, but is it possible for an app to download itself onto your phone without your consent and access your credit card info?

2. Is it possible for web pages that have previously been visited to randomly pop back up in new windows in the stock browser?
 
1. I've heard that play store can be kinda sketchy, but is it possible for an app to download itself onto your phone without your consent and access your credit card info?

2. Is it possible for web pages that have previously been visited to randomly pop back up in new windows in the stock browser?

This could be possible with downloading a sketchy app or accessing your google play account through the web. I would change your password for Google and factory reset the phone.
 
In my previous post I think my questions came off as being a little vague, so I'm just gonna lay it all out here.

My husband had downloaded a game called Tiny Monsters off google play and he had bought some in-app purchases, using our debit card. Eventually some kind of dating website called BeNaughty started taking money out of our account, almost $150 worth. I'm not sure if the BeNaughty app was ever officially on his phone, but it shows up under "my apps" in Google play, leading me to believe he downloaded it, though he insists he had nothing to do with it. So my question is: is it possible that Tiny Monsters could have somehow downloaded BeNaughty and/or leaked our bank info? Or is my husband lying about the whole thing?

Now on a separate occasion on a completely different phone with a completely new google account, my husband had some porn pulled up in his stock browser. He admitted that he looked it up a long time ago, but swears he hasn't since. Well somehow it keeps popping up in his browser. He says that websites that he hasn't been to in a long time just pop up. Is this even possible?

And before you answer just know I'm not proud of snooping. We've had quite a bit of trust issues. Please don't judge me, I just really need to know if the stuff he's claiming is even possible.
 
I don't know why you suspect Tiny Monsters, but I think it very unlikely that an app from the Play Store with > 5 million downloads is responsible for this, both because it is on the Play Store (where there are checks) and because with that number of installs it would be spotted quite quickly.
 
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