Huge increase in hacked iTunes accounts
Summary: Might be worth checking your iTunes account.
Judging by the emails I'm getting and the chatter over on Apple's support forum, there seems to have been a huge increase in hack attacks on iTunes accounts.
Accounts containing credit card details, those linked to a PayPal account and those with a gift certificate balance seem to have been hit. Many accounts with a gift certificate balance have been virtually cleaned out.
The name Kingdom Conquest seems to be coming up often in reports, either as the app being purchased or the app being used to make fraudulent in-app purchases.
F-Secure's chief research officer Mikko Hypponen believes that it is 'unlikely' that all these hacks were carried out with the use of keyloggers.
Might be worth checking your iTunes account if you have one, and harden any poor quality passwords.
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RE: Huge increase in hacked iTunes accounts
Let me stop you right there.
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RE: Huge increase in hacked iTunes accounts
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Good Idea but...
Any thoughts on having multitudes of accounts?
My single biggest issue: numerous accounts, all have passwords and not all will allow the same criteria.
As a result I have too many accounts with the same or similar passwords.
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btw: This does not apply to just personal accounts. Have a lot of the same issues in business.
RE: Huge increase in hacked iTunes accounts
You'll probably get allot of feedback on using some type of system or pattern so that they can be different, but have enough similarities that the pattern will help you to remember them. To me, that seems overly complicated and makes the process of periodic changes a lengthy task.
I generally view it like this, for accounts that are somewhat anonymous and harmless (e.g. No financial or professional impact if breached, like ZDNet), I'll tend to go the same password. For those that are in my name, I'll vary it a little more (e.g. Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn since they contain PII to varying degrees). For those that I actually use for purchases or work related, I'm the most vigilant and these are all unique.
Allot of people will argue against using password managers or writing account info down, but as long as done responsibly (using a reliable product, storing in a safe/locked place, etc.) the risk is minimal. The reality is, I have accounts for work that I access so infrequently (but timeliness is important when I do), it's almost impossible to keep track of them in my head only.
iTunes is horrible. Anyone who still has an itunes account should have
Tiresome
Let's see if I have this right
Anyone who says anything negative about an Apple product is wrong and biased and must be a Microsoft employee.
Does this mean that anyone who says anything negative about an MS product is wrong and biased and must be an Apple employee? If so, nearly all of Apple's workforce is taking time off from making great products and is instead simply trolling on ZDNet. You are the perfect example of the Apple employee troll.
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So what other issues? YOU must know since you are not only advocating the non use of it but saying that people who use it must have to have some form of mental therapy. And since you MUST be an expert I'll definitely give your explanation due diligence... or are you some sort of iHater troll?
I say the same thing about people who
RE: Huge increase in hacked iTunes accounts
Funny, I was in and out of the App stores
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I don't think that it was hacked from my computer with a keylogger, because I had not actually turned on that laptop in 5 months. It has just been sitting in my closet dead as a doornail.