Mystery of Vanishing iTunes Credit Shows No Sign of Fading

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Back on November 28, 2010, somebody started a thread on Apple's support forums about someone spending more than $50 of his iTunes Store credit (https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2665383) on iPhone apps. That discussion thread has since swelled to more than 45 pages, with nearly 700 posts. 'Someone — or some group of someones — seems to be able to spend iTunes gift card credit without permission, buying apps that users don't want. And whoever's doing the hacking seems pretty good at it: Hundreds of users have seen their iTunes credit stolen, and the hack shows no signs of slowing (https://www.macworld.com/article/161794/2011/09/the_towson_hack_the_mystery_of_disappearing_itunes _credit.html#lsrc=twt_dmoren), ten months after it was first reported.' Apple has refunded certain accounts, but not in all cases. Apple suggests that the hack stems from weak, easily guessable passwords, and/or phishing attacks where customers are fooled into entering their passwords into hackers' forms."

http://apple.slashdot.org/story/11/09/10/1556249/Mystery-of-Vanishing-iTunes-Credit-Shows-No-Sign-of-Fading