Apple Keeping Quiet About Security

roachyuk · 14 Jun 2011 at 18:16

myself and a couple off people i know have had unauthorised purchases on our accounts....now how can this be....i personally think there security has been breached and they are keeping quiet where as sony openly told everyone so i recommend people change there payment method ,password and secret question to be safe....if anyone else has info on this id like to know thanks.

Deku · 14 Jun 2011 at 18:56

Anymore details? You mean app store purchases from an iPhone? or iTunes? or What?

roachyuk · 14 Jun 2011 at 19:15

yes i got a email today you know the ones you get a receipt when you buy an app...mine today was for a game called kingdom conquest for 5.76 luckily i use itune vouchers...rathe than bank details now whether it was for a ipad ,iphone or ipod i dont know just waiting on apple coming back to me about it...but if you search google aswell there are loads of people who it has happened to of late...just letting people know .

AbsenceJam · 14 Jun 2011 at 20:20

How can this be? Serious question?

Your login has been keylogged, phished, sniffed or acquired in some other way at your end. That's the obvious conclusion, not some completely baseless one that's many, many times less likely.

roachyuk · 14 Jun 2011 at 20:27

welll im not sure but my pc is clean and only log on to itunes from the phones so unless someone can key log my phone or something i very much doubt it....and apple lock your id if some one tries to force it.

Syphon · 14 Jun 2011 at 20:30

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/01/25/itunes_gifting_scam/

Jimbeam3678 · 14 Jun 2011 at 21:02

Slightly worrying that's why I link it to my CC rightly or wrongly I assume I've got more protection

AbsenceJam · 14 Jun 2011 at 22:15

roachyuk said:
welll im not sure but my pc is clean and only log on to itunes from the phones so unless someone can key log my phone or something i very much doubt it....and apple lock your id if some one tries to force it.

Which is more likely, your login has been compromised OR Apple are compromised but there are only a few sporadic instances of details being used?

roachyuk · 14 Jun 2011 at 22:44

if you google it you will find its not just sporadic.

Rameses · 15 Jun 2011 at 00:38

Intrusions will always happen. Passwords will always be revealed via any number of keyloggers/phishing or plain jane guessing. It's been reported lots of times over the years, those anime books suddenly getting into the top 10 or whatever was a give-away of some wrong doing.

You need to report it to Apple & your CC company, change your passwords.

Fron that Reg article:

In general, malware infection or the use of the same password on another site that falls victim to a hacking attack are routes towards becoming a victim of this type of attack.

AbsenceJam · 15 Jun 2011 at 04:47

roachyuk said:
if you google it you will find its not just sporadic.

Google for same for any other site or service, same results.

Mattus · 16 Jun 2011 at 16:28

roachyuk said:
if you google it you will find its not just sporadic.

Of course it's not - there's hundreds of millions of iTunes accounts. If 0.01% of them get phished, that's still a lot of compromised accounts.

Ten-to-one you've used the same password on another site whose database has been hacked into.

Deleted member 77746 · 16 Jun 2011 at 18:31

I'm sure most of this is phishing attempts & keyloggers, and successful ones at that.

BEN_UK · 16 Jun 2011 at 18:53

2 months back i was scammed out of £9.99 from my itunes account.

The app they purchased was called the "Lucky App"

Lucky was only itunes vouchers and no CC registered.

Got the money back within 7 days.

Was quite impressed with itunes support.