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App Store, Hacked. (Updated: iTunes Accounts too.)
The Next Web ^ | July 4th, 2010 | Zee

Posted on 07/04/2010 7:02:00 PM PDT by PugetSoundSoldier

Two iPhone App developers have spotted what appears to be a hacking of the App store rankings by a rogue developer. The rankings in the books category of the US iTunes store features 40 out of 50 apps by the same app developer, Thuat Nguyen.

What’s more concerning is that it seems individuals iTunes accounts have been hacked to make mass purchases of that one developer’s apps.

(Excerpt) Read more at thenextweb.com ...


TOPICS: Computers/Internet
KEYWORDS: apple; apps; ilovebillgates; iphone; iwanthim; iwanthimbad; microsoftfanboys; secure
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Check your iTunes account - the App Store's been compromised, you may be paying for someone else to get all the apps they want.
1 posted on 07/04/2010 7:02:03 PM PDT by PugetSoundSoldier
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To: PugetSoundSoldier

Thanks for the info!


2 posted on 07/04/2010 7:03:29 PM PDT by Randy Larsen ( BTW, If I offend you! Please let me know, I may want to offend you again!(FR #1690))
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To: for-q-clinton; TomServo; driftdiver; Swordmaker

Apparently the walled garden has been breached... And people are getting nailed for hundreds of dollars of app downloads.


3 posted on 07/04/2010 7:04:07 PM PDT by PugetSoundSoldier (Indignation over the Sting of Truth is the defense of the indefensible)
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To: Swordmaker

ping


4 posted on 07/04/2010 7:04:25 PM PDT by Keith in Iowa
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To: PugetSoundSoldier

You evil hater


5 posted on 07/04/2010 7:08:29 PM PDT by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: driftdiver; Swordmaker

Sorry, that’s GD EVIL, LYING, FUD SPREADING SINNER AGAINST APPLE to you...;)

At least I pinged Swordmaker so he can come here and tell me that I’m a liar, it’s all FUD and there is no problem. And not complain for some reason that a thread that dealt with Apple was not given to him immediately (although I don’t know the problem about that)...


6 posted on 07/04/2010 7:10:49 PM PDT by PugetSoundSoldier (Indignation over the Sting of Truth is the defense of the indefensible)
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To: Randy Larsen

You’re welcome!


7 posted on 07/04/2010 7:11:41 PM PDT by PugetSoundSoldier (Indignation over the Sting of Truth is the defense of the indefensible)
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To: PugetSoundSoldier

Thankfully I have no credit card on file with Itunes..learned my lesson a few years ago when I had my Visa in Itunes, someone was able to steal it and made about 200 bucks worth of purchases for apps and cheesy movies


8 posted on 07/04/2010 7:12:52 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: Sarah Barracuda

So you’re saying this isn’t a new problem?


9 posted on 07/04/2010 7:14:02 PM PDT by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: PugetSoundSoldier

This is why I only keep about twenty bucks in my PayPal account. :)


10 posted on 07/04/2010 7:14:02 PM PDT by MarineBrat (Better dead than red!)
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To: Sarah Barracuda
learned my lesson a few years ago when I had my Visa in Itunes, someone was able to steal it and made about 200 bucks worth of purchases for apps and cheesy movies

That's impossible, we've all been told time and again there has never been a security breach of any Apple product "in the wild"...;)

At least you won't lose money this time! And don't trust the App ratings either, since they're gamed as well, apparently...

11 posted on 07/04/2010 7:16:44 PM PDT by PugetSoundSoldier (Indignation over the Sting of Truth is the defense of the indefensible)
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To: PugetSoundSoldier

Sounds like Apple needs a PCI audit. On average every account they’ve lost will cost slightly more than $200 to repair. Thats restitution, penalties to the card issuers, possible legal trouble from the card owners, and cost of replacing the cards.

Could be higher of course. If they’ve lost enough account they’ll be forced into some very expensive corrective actions.


12 posted on 07/04/2010 7:17:15 PM PDT by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: PugetSoundSoldier

My mother had someone clean out her bank account through Itunes a while back. Apple didn’t seem to care one way or the other but the bank cared a lot and gave her the money back and went after Itunes themselves.


13 posted on 07/04/2010 7:17:29 PM PDT by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
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My mother had someone clean out her bank account through Itunes a while back. Apple didn’t seem to care one way or the other but the bank cared a lot and gave her the money back and went after Itunes themselves.

Those are the actions of a company that cares more about the bottom line than the satisfaction of their customers, not a company that's supposed to "Think Different"! ;)

14 posted on 07/04/2010 7:20:17 PM PDT by PugetSoundSoldier (Indignation over the Sting of Truth is the defense of the indefensible)
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To: driftdiver

Not a new problem. The person who hacked into my apple account was some guy in China..I called Visa right away and canceled the card. This crap isn’t new..happens all the time. I don’t buy anything from Itunes anymore


15 posted on 07/04/2010 7:21:09 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: driftdiver

My mother bought a news report about trucking to write an article with some of the info. Several months lated she started getting hit with major purchases of music downloads she never bought.

She got it straightened out but it was with no help from apple or itunes.


16 posted on 07/04/2010 7:24:05 PM PDT by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
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To: driftdiver

Yep. But from post 13, it sounds like Apple will say “screw you” and ignore it, let the credit card company come after them. Just like a cold, calculating “bottom line oriented corporation”, not a caring entity.

Funny, I claimed that a week ago in another thread and was pilloried for it. Now we see that, in fact, Apple cares more about the bottom line than a given user’s satisfaction or experience. They’ll only care about an issue if it becomes large enough to affect enough users in a significant enough manner to threaten their profitability.

Apple: Think Different (about us; while we’re the same dollar-driven bastards as the rest of the industry we rail against, we still want you to ignore that and consider us blameless in all things)


17 posted on 07/04/2010 7:24:38 PM PDT by PugetSoundSoldier (Indignation over the Sting of Truth is the defense of the indefensible)
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To: PugetSoundSoldier

It wasn’t hacked, you are just holding iTunes wrong.


18 posted on 07/04/2010 7:25:47 PM PDT by mnehring
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To: mnehring

Is there a $30 rubber band I can buy that will secure my iTunes account?


19 posted on 07/04/2010 7:28:35 PM PDT by PugetSoundSoldier (Indignation over the Sting of Truth is the defense of the indefensible)
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To: PugetSoundSoldier

All companies that accept credit cards have agreements with the card companies. Penalties for stuff like this start at $500,000 dollars. Technically Apple is required to report incidents like this but they probably do it on an individual account basis thereby avoiding the repercussions.


20 posted on 07/04/2010 7:33:58 PM PDT by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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