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Apple has not officially responded to the problems, but Nguyen's apps have now disappeared from the App Store. We're not sure whether Apple decided to shut down the operation or the seller pulled the apps himself after the story blew up. Even more worrisome is the fact that this doesn't seem to be an isolated incident -- reports are now emerging about alleged "App Farms" in iTunes being used to scam users out of their money, including one developer who hands out around 45 games for free (many of them clones that only differ by the number of "points" they offer), and then uses in-game points purchases costing upwards of $150 to make their money.
With over 100 million active iTunes accounts to date this is a serious matter. It's unclear at this point how the hackers got their hands on the iTunes account passwords, whether by employing phishing scams or through a vulnerability in Apple's system. Either way, it wouldn't be a bad idea to keep an eye on your account for any suspicious activity and make sure you are using a strong password.
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princeton said:
Good job. Maybe steve jobs will get off his stack of gold bars and admit he fucked up the iphone as a result to this. Now I'm wondering if the people hacked will get some sort of reimbursement depending on the severity of the amount taken.
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And this is another of many reason why i continue to use Nokia product.
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Haha. What happened to Apple products being unhackable... Who wants to bet that Apple's servers for Itunes are all on Apple Servers.... hmmm how did that happen :P
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tengeta said:
paynetrain007 said:Haha. What happened to Apple products being unhackable... Who wants to bet that Apple's servers for Itunes are all on Apple Servers.... hmmm how did that happen :P
Thats the truth if your a fanboy that only listens to what Apple officially releases, because basically they never admit it and if you read nothing else you never know. They even give "security updates" for OSX and refuse to go into detail over what the update fixed 99% of the time. The 1%? Its flash/java/your non-safari browsers fault.
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i guess this is one more reason for people to drop apple for a better alternative, say android or winMo gadgets, but some people are just obsessed about apple products;
i personnally have a winMo device, htc diamond, and i am very satisfied, never worry about a problem of this kind.
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Apple/macs are real easy to hack.
"They are so easy to hack, people don't bother to hack them" - Steve Jobs (real quote)
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