iTunes fraud surge hits gift card balances, PayPal accounts - GoFuckYourself.com

$5 submissions · 06-12-2011, 02:59 PM

Is this happening to you? Something funky's going down

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often the charges are for in-app purchases for apps such as Section8's World War, Sega's Kingdom Conquest or Kamagames' Texas Poker. Even as Apple is pushing forward with iCloud, questions remain about the security and safety of those millions of accounts.

You can read the examples on Apple's discussion boards (stretching from November of 2010 until this week), a series of posts over at Betanews, or coverage at PC Pro -- but many of the stories are similar to the one below. Users who funded their accounts with gift cards saw those balances chewed through with unauthorized purchases; one user with PayPal funding for his account saw over $500 in fake purchases. The in-app buys were for apps the users never downloaded; most claim that their passwords were never compromised and only used for iTunes. Even if phishing or password compromises can explain some of the purchases, it's hard to imagine that all of these accounts were cracked.

Full story at: http://www.tuaw.com/2011/06/08/itune...ypal-accounts/

u-Bob · 06-12-2011, 03:02 PM

Apple needed more money for their new building?

$5 submissions · 06-12-2011, 03:03 PM

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Originally Posted by u-Bob

Apple needed more money for their new building?

Awesome spaceship building though. Looks like an iDonut

u-Bob · 06-12-2011, 03:06 PM

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Originally Posted by $5 submissions

Awesome spaceship building though. Looks like an iDonut

I can imagine how that would work: Apple employees who are all afraid to tell the glorious leader that they're running out of money, so they just resort to banging cards

$5 submissions · 06-12-2011, 03:09 PM

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Originally Posted by u-Bob

I can imagine how that would work: Apple employees who are all afraid to tell the glorious leader that they're running out of money, so they just resort to banging cards

Blame it on rogue employee

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