Itunes Accts/App Store hacked

[kaiser soze]

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-20009658-37.html

Earlier Sunday, Engadget reported an inexplicable uptick in sales of book apps by a developer identified as Thuat Nguyen. According to the blog, at the time of writing its report, Nguyen apps accounted for 42 of the top 50 books by revenue in the Books section of the iTunes App Store. Engadget went on to mention "a number of people reporting up to hundreds of dollars being spent unwillingly from their [iTunes] account to these specific books."

http://www.pcworld.com/article/200492/apple_app_store_and_itunes_accounts_hacked_say_rep orts.html

Apple has not put out an official statement regarding the alleged hacks, but Nguyen's apps have now disappeared from the App Store. Alex Brie noted on his blog he reported the issue to Apple, and that a team is investigating the problem.

More bad press for Apple :(

[Helvete]

Why the sad face? Fuck 'em.

[jabumbo]

i guess they are getting big enough that people are bothering to hack them now instead of just PC's

[kaiser soze]

yeah they are The Big Cat of technology now, so you'd think they'd be a big target for hackin'

concerning the sad face - pseudo-sarcasm with some sincerity. I know many of my family members use itunes so I hope they haven't been compromised.

[Adam]

Apple do seemed to be getting picked on. It happened to Microsoft, hasn't quite happened to google but it will.

Apple are excellent at control and spin though, they'll come out of it better than other companies managed it.

But it is just bad press like you say, it'll of probably be very few % wise who are effected and those that have been scammed will get their money back quickly thus making it a nothing story but the increase in attacks will continue.

mo'money mo'problems basically.

[rirv]

That's nothing compared to what is happening to Justin Bieber's facebook page right now. :(:(

[Helvete]

That's not all, he's booked for a trip to N. Korea soon.

[Adam]

Should I know who Justin Biebe is?

[Helvete]

If you honestly do not know who he is, I envy you. Keep it that way.

[Adam]

Honestly, not a clue. Popular culture ended for me in about 2004 and lack of tv since then has kept it that way.

[Echewta]

This is great news for lemons!

[roosta]

an extremely small percentage of users, about 400 of the 150 million iTunes users — that is less than 0.0003% of iTunes users, were impacted.

More tech-news hype?