Why are so many GameCenter All Time high scores 9,223,....?

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I have noticed a trend for the past couple years in GameCenter public all time high score list. I am not sure why, and not all games have this glitch, but on certain games the first 100+ highscores are the same number:

9,223,372,036,854,775,807

Why does this happen and how could it be stopped?






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