Apple: 400 iTunes Accounts Hacked
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A developer hacked and cheated to pimp his app in the app store on iTunes. It doesn’t appear that any serious damage was done and Apple is downplaying the incident. Still, this reinforces the need for users to have strong passwords.
Apple now admits 400 iTunes accounts were hacked and used by a Vietnamese developer, Thuat Nguyen, to push his iPhone apps to best seller status over the weekend. But here is the zinger; Apple is saying it was no big deal. Four hundred accounts equals 0.0003 percent of the over 150 million iTunes account holders, Apple points out.
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