Earlier today Clayton Morris, the Fox News anchor, brought news direct from Apple that only 400 accounts were ‘impacted” by the iTunes hacking saga that we first reported on Saturday.
Where Apple might be being truthful is that only 400 were impacted by that one particular developer, Thuat Nguyen. Although even that I’m not buying. What Apple isn’t going into, is the number of accounts outside of that one Vietnamese developer that have been impacted. We’ve said it before, and we’ll say it again – this is not just about this one app developer.
With relative ease we can tally up the number of cases reported in the last few days in our own comments and emails, and they’ll undoubtedly surpass 400 by some margin – and that’s just on TNW.
Also, as I mentioned earlier, I’m not completely buying this 400 accounts just for that one particular developer. 400 purchases of 42 apps is enough to get to the top 50 for an entire month?
What’s more, we’re working on revealing details that will show the extent the iTunes store has been abused – primarily from the Far East – to access personal account details of users across the globe. More on that soon.
The extent of which might just explain why Apple recently began its search for an iTunes Fraud Specialist.
Don’t accept that this is just a minor case of a few accounts being hacked people, there’s more to this. Above all, however many it is, it’s app developers being screwed and it could be your money being stolen.
Another example of apple’s obfuscation.
I didn’t buy it either, 400 is such a round number. Being that the day started at 30, and by the end of the day 400, going by that percentage I figured we would hear 5332 by this morning. Figuring it will take time for some to realize that they’ve been had, who’s to say what the count will be in the end. I think the only way we’ll ever get a close total is if the banks (who will eat the loss) come out and tell just how many customers got nabbed.
I do not expect Apple to know exactly what has transpired for this to happen right away. Maybe these folks were socially engineered in a phishing scheme, or maybe there’s a big gaping hole in the software, I doubt will ever know. It certainly isn’t Apple’s month!
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I think the only way we’ll ever get a close total is if the banks (who will eat the loss) come out and tell just how many customers got nabbed.
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you will never see a credit card post “totals”, they have always had iTunes losses going back for years, the amount of this weekend is so small (like every week) it is like the nat on their “total” loss’s butt, and their total losses is like a pimple on an elephant of what they make.
honkj,, Thanks for stating the obvious … did I say anywhere there that I expected them too? No. Look up the word “if”