surfinhicdude
07-04-2010, 01:45 PM
Wow, can Apple get a break?
http://www.macstories.net/news/itunes-accounts-hacked-by-vietnamese-developer/
Many users are reporting that their iTunes accounts got hacked, and they found themselves new owners of these applications. Take a look at a screenshot from The Next Web.
Another iPhone developer, the one that first found out about this Vietnamese dev, reports:
“The developer itself doesn’t seem to be legit – both the company site and support page are missing, no reference of them could be found on Google.
It’s statistically impossible that out of 41 book apps of a developer (he also has one game in his 42 apps portfolio), all of them are in top 50 paid books US, having been published on the same days (most of them on April 16, others on April 20 and the rest on April 22).
The Conan 3 book does have other *extremely* positive reviews written in poor english; none of the other 41 books has any reviews; had the positive ones been legit, other apps should have some kind of reviews as well. But they don’t, so it might be that Conan 3 positive reviews were written by their developer(or his partners), in an attempt of diverting attention from the real issue.”
It really looks like this guy somehow managed to obtain account information from some users, release 42 apps and buy them using those accounts – thus making it to the top of the charts. We’ll keep you posted about this, but in the meantime I suggest you change your iTunes password and check on your bank / Paypal account activity.
Many people believe the store itself was compromised, not just individual accounts. Change your password and remove any stored credit card information asap.
http://www.macstories.net/news/itunes-accounts-hacked-by-vietnamese-developer/
Many users are reporting that their iTunes accounts got hacked, and they found themselves new owners of these applications. Take a look at a screenshot from The Next Web.
Another iPhone developer, the one that first found out about this Vietnamese dev, reports:
“The developer itself doesn’t seem to be legit – both the company site and support page are missing, no reference of them could be found on Google.
It’s statistically impossible that out of 41 book apps of a developer (he also has one game in his 42 apps portfolio), all of them are in top 50 paid books US, having been published on the same days (most of them on April 16, others on April 20 and the rest on April 22).
The Conan 3 book does have other *extremely* positive reviews written in poor english; none of the other 41 books has any reviews; had the positive ones been legit, other apps should have some kind of reviews as well. But they don’t, so it might be that Conan 3 positive reviews were written by their developer(or his partners), in an attempt of diverting attention from the real issue.”
It really looks like this guy somehow managed to obtain account information from some users, release 42 apps and buy them using those accounts – thus making it to the top of the charts. We’ll keep you posted about this, but in the meantime I suggest you change your iTunes password and check on your bank / Paypal account activity.
Many people believe the store itself was compromised, not just individual accounts. Change your password and remove any stored credit card information asap.