iTunes Also Hit “Hack,” Hundreds of U.S. Dollar Floating
In addition to YouTube, iTunes App Store, Apple products, reportedly also attacked by a hacker or hackers. Some iTunes users account has been hijacked and misused actors to buy up the application.
The attack was allegedly associated with one of the developers on behalf of Vietnam Nguyen Thuat. Section, since this incident occurred, it sells books listed in 42 of the 50 best-selling book in the application iTunes book. Apple has closed the developer access to the iTunes online store.
Apple has not issued an official statement on this incident. There is the possibility of a rating system that best-selling applications to boost ratings has been compromised or hijacked accounts are used to purchase the application. Section, a number of iTunes users admitted losing hundreds of dollars for transactions that they never do.
“Yesterday I contacted the bank stated that there was suspicious activity on my debit card. There were 10 transactions each between 40 dollars and 50 dollars in iTunes so the total 558 U.S. dollars,” said one victim was quoted as saying The Next Web from the MacRumors forum.
Another victim claimed to be puzzled by e-mail contains a statement of accounts in iTunes to use 190 dollars worth. Each to access the map service with recurring transaction value between a dollar and three dollars. (Kompas)
