PayPal has - or more precisely, some of its users have. The conclusion: iTunes hasn't been cracked.
Sources close to Apple tell me iTunes has not been compromised and the company isn't aware of any sudden increase in fraudulent transactions." There's no security hole in iTunes, and if you've been unfortunate enough to have hundreds of dollars in unauthorized purchases charged to your iTunes account, it's likely because you've fallen victim to a bot attack or phishing scam – a variation on the one that's been around for years now. "not much to their assertion that Apple is at fault here. John Paczkowski at AllThingsD offers much the same conclusion: Conclusion: transaction not done via iTunes. So - a non-existent product and an email subject line that wasn't generated by the iTunes Store. Plus: the people who were scammed say that the receipt claims it was for the purchase (at $99.99 a time - clever one by the scammers, aiming to get it underneath the credit card "suspicion" level and also below the automatic level where the merchant has to bear the cost of reversing the payment) of "CastleCraft, Dragon Crystals (10000 Pack), Seller: Freeverse, Inc)".Įxcept that while the US store (the only one which allows payment via PayPal) does have CastleCraft (iTunes link), which does come from Freeverse, there's no product called "Dragon Crystals" and they don't come in 10,000 packs. As Mark Derrick notes, it will read "Receipt for your payment to iTunes". If you buy stuff on the iTunes Store via PayPal, the email subject line doesn't read like that. Yes, they have received emails which say "Receipt for your payment to iTunes Store".īut that's where you have to look more closely. Yes, people have seen their PayPal accounts drained of funds. Look more closely, though, and it doesn't quite add up. I called security at PayPal and was told a large number of iTunes store accounts were compromised.'" One targeted customer told us, 'My account was charged over $4,700. At least one group of scammers has found a way to charge thousands of dollars to iTunes accounts through PayPal. "Reports are appearing this morning about a major security hole in iTunes accounts linked to PayPal. There's a scattering of reports that iTunes accounts have been hacked - hello TechCrunch, with " Fraudsters Drain PayPal Accounts Through iTunes", which says (a trifle breathlessly) that:
Problem is that they seem to have gotten greedy, which has made their greed surface.
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