Apple's iTunes App Store Hackers Attacked

Some blogs about technology report, Apple's iTunes App Store hackers attacked. Some iTunes users account broken into and used to shop without the knowledge of the application users.

One of the technology blog called Engadget reported, the attacks were allegedly associated with one application developers who know the name of Vietnamese Nguyen Thuat. According to the blog report, when the hack occurred, a total of 42 books listed in Nguyen's 50 best-selling book in the Books application on the iTunes App Store.

This conjecture is reinforced by the number of consumers who complained about the existence of reports of suspicious transactions on their iTunes account. Hundreds of dollars of their money disappear in the iTunes account and spent on the book, without sepengetahuna them. Thus the information quoted from Cnet, Monday (07/05/2010).

"The bank contacted me and told there were suspicious transactions on my debit card. There are more than 10 transactions, each worth U.S. $ 40 to U.S. $ 50. The overall transaction is U.S. $ 558," said one user who is not mentioned by name.

A number of other iTunes users also admitted to losing hundreds of dollars for transactions of different applications that they never do. In the meantime, Apple so far has not given an official response.