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First iOS, Now Mac OS X In-App Purchases Hacked

Posted by timothy on from the next-up-7-11-purchases dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Last week Russian developer Alexey Borodin hacked Apple's In-App Purchase program for all devices running iOS 3.0 or later, allowing iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch users to circumvent the payment process and essentially steal in-app content. Apple [Friday] announced a temporary fix and that it would patch the holes with the release of iOS 6. While Cupertino was distracted, Borodin came in and pulled off the same scheme on the Mac."

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  1. Overreacting by mwvdlee · · Score: 4, Funny

    allowing iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch users to circumvent the payment process and essentially steal in-app content

    You mean the users (well... only one user) can actually copy and delete it from the application vendors' hardware? Wow, that is bad!

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    1. Re:Overreacting by Jeremy+Erwin · · Score: 4, Funny

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