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Has iTunes Been Hacked?
An anonymous reader writes "Betanews has a series of articles talking about an apparent hack in iTunes that has resulted in fraudulent charges for some users involving Sega's Kingdom Conquest game. The reports start with a personal account from reporter Ed Oswald, who was a victim of the hack itself. The next story adds reports from readers, and the most recent story adds additional reports, with Oswald saying the number of reports received are in the 'dozens.' Apple has yet to confirm the existence of a hack, although reports have appeared on Sega's own support forums, Apple discussion boards, and through other news outlets."
More like identity theft.
Considering we've seen a story about how everyone is using the same password everywhere, and how Sony got hacked again , exposing even more passwords, is it any surprise that a number of people are having their iTunes and PayPal accounts attacked and drained to buy game gold?
iTunes and PayPal are pretty huge targets, but who'd attack a single game if they had access to the back end?
I've worked in IT security for a long time and for banks... The sheer number of unreported hacks at banks and at retail stores would blow your mind. People mistakenly get angry at the hackers (which is how the media has trained most everyone to think) when in reality it is almost always gross negligence on the hack-ee side and they deserve the ire.
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Or, quite possibly, we're starting to see the impact of the Sony hacks themselves. I'd bet money that the affected people were using the same login information on each service, especially since both services use the same "username": the player's e-mail address. If you're not using unique passwords for each of your services (and especially the for the e-mail account that unifies them all), you're doing it wrong.
https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere
irregardless of any other ire given
Irregardless is not a word. You may have a point, but your use of a non-word makes me wonder.
The opposite of progress is congress
From reading up on the user reports of this. It seems this has been happening in this pattern since mid to late May. Apple has inexplicably not said a damn thing (yet), but has been removing credit card details from accounts, and locking some others out. Which indicates they are aware of this issue and dealing with it. Interestingly users report they are having no problems having their balances refunded. The silence is conspicuous, no? I guess this issue getting slashdotted means Apple is going to say something.
/. != a actual real issue.
What worries me is they appear to have known about it for a while and are trying to clean it up as quietly as possible. If this is was a glitch one presume they would admit it in a downplayed fashion. I'd wager it is a BIG hack.
Leaving us with two possiblities:
1) iTunes has been seriously fckued over for teh lulz and profit and is trying to keep it quiet.
2) Or iTunes fraud may have been a constant (but contained) background noise for some while and this isn't much of an abberation. Apple may prefer to live with some level of fraud and patch it up the leaks quietly. Just because it's trending on
Either way, talk about reality distortion.
After logging in slashdot still does not take you back to the page you were on. It's been that way for 20 years.
because if this turns out to be another widespread hack like the others reccently it'd be the last time I ever buy an Apple product.
What, Steve Jobs controlling every aspect of your life wasn't enough?
Peter predicted that you would "deliberately forget" creation 2000 years ago...
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