Apple Says Only 400 iTunes Accounts Compromised

Apple has informed Clayton Morris that Only 400 iTunes Accounts Compromised and this is a very small percentage -- 0.0003% of iTunes accounts, Also Apple has banned that Vietnamese hacker, Thuat Nguyen

Apple told me that 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.

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Apple Responses to iTunes Accounts Hacking Issue?

Two days ago, I told you that most of iTunes accounts got hacked by a Vietnamese Hacker and Apple should do something about that! Now Engadget is reporting the Official Apple's press release, check it after the break..

The developer Thuat Nguyen and his apps were removed from the App Store for violating the developer Program License Agreement, including fraudulent purchase patterns.

Developers do not receive any iTunes confidential customer data when an app is downloaded.

If your credit card or iTunes password is stolen and used on iTunes we recommend that you contact your financial institution and inquire about canceling the card and issuing a chargeback for any unauthorized transactions. We also recommend that you change your iTunes account password immediately. For more information on best practices for password security visit http://www.apple.com/support/itunes.

Categories: Apple, Hacking, iPad, iPhone, iTunes

iTunes Accounts got Hacked by Vietnamese Guy!

Did you get your iTunes account hacked? Yes I think so, Go ahead and Check for it Now because a Vietnamese Developer, If you navigate to Books category of iPhone App Store and Check top paid apps, You will notice that there's a Developer who owns 40 apps. (WTF)
Also guys on The Next Web reporting that they got their iTunes accounts Hacked and they found themselves owners of the 40 apps.

Here's another iPhone Developer reporting that a Vietnamese Developer is hacking iTunes Accounts, he was the first who find that:

I’m the developer of the QuickReader iPhone application. I’ve been noticing over the past few days that my app along with yours has been slipping down in the rankings. On trying to figure out why, I discovered what appears to be a concerted and criminal effort to game the Books category rankings.

It looks like the Books category has been hijacked by an app publisher named mycompany/Thuat Nguyen. His apps now occupy 40 of the top 50 ranks in the Books category on the app store. These are apps that typically wouldn’t rank in the Books category and most of them don’t have any ratings or reviews. However if you look at the reviews for the Conan 3 app, you can see that 2 reviewers complain (as early as Monday the 28th) that their iTunes accounts were hacked and the apps were purchased by the hacker. It would appear that this publisher is hacking accounts and buying his own apps in order to drive up his rankings in the Books category.

This is having a negative impact on our apps, which are being pushed down in the rankings and losing visibility, plus it makes for a bad user experience.

[via MacStories]
Got your iTunes Account Hacked? Hope you report us here and We will help you when we get Support for this ... Vitenamese!

Update 1: Also some members of Mac Rumors got their iTunes accounts hacked, What the hell is going up there!

I had a similar issue around christmas time - i tried to buy a song using my account (as I have done many times). iTunes rejected my password - i definatley typed it in right! I reset it to what it was before and then it was ok.

I was worried someone had got into my account but i dont see anything being bought that I didnt so i assume was just a glitch.....

Update 2: Some tips you may follow:

1. At first, you should Change your password Immediately, then continue reading!
2. Check for your recent purchases history, if you found something wrong with it, REPORT Apple.
3. Remove your credit card details by setting the “Payment Method” to “None”
4. If you really still serving or hacked, Report us by commenting down here, and I may solve it for you! 

Update 3: Apple has successfully removed the apps by the developer, check here.

Categories: Apple, Hacking, iPhone, iTunes