{"id":8700,"date":"2010-07-04T23:19:32","date_gmt":"2010-07-04T23:19:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/apple_itunes_app_store_hacked.html"},"modified":"2010-07-04T23:19:32","modified_gmt":"2010-07-04T23:19:32","slug":"apple-itunes-app-store-hacked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/technology\/apple-itunes-app-store-hacked.html","title":{"rendered":"Apple iTunes App Store Hacked"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It appears according to a <a href=\"http:\/\/thenextweb.com\/apple\/2010\/07\/04\/app-store-hacked\/\">report<\/a> from The Next Web that the iPhone App Store has been hacked and so have accounts. According to the article:<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 40px;\">The rankings in the <a href=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/WebObjects\/MZStore.woa\/wa\/viewTop?id=25470&amp;popId=30&amp;genreId=6018\">books category of the US iTunes store<\/a> features 40 out of 50 apps by the same app developer, Thuat Nguyen.<\/p>\n<p>It seems the developer in question which has apps which are being mass purchased by iTunes accounts holders. The way this issue was discovered in fact was some app developers <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alexbrie.com\/archives\/205\">found<\/a> their rankings were dropping rapidly in what appeared to be abnormal manner.<\/p>\n<p>Of course this incident brings up the point about the much ballyhoohed walled-garden that Apple maintains in order to protect its customers from viruses, porn and other security risks. It just goes to show you that even the most well-designed and thought out plan can be penetrated by malicious developers.<\/p>\n<p>It is unclear however what damage there will be for iTunes customers if any as of course Apple is able to cancel purchases which are not authorized.<\/p>\n<p>If you are a concerned iTunes App Store user a word of smart advice comes from David Murphy who <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcmag.com\/article2\/0,2817,2366064,00.asp\">says<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 40px;\">Be sure to look into your &#8220;previous purchases&#8221; listing from time to time for evidence of unauthorized activity&#8211;or just unlink your credit card details from your account!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It appears according to a report from The Next Web that the iPhone App Store has been hacked and so have accounts. According to the article: The rankings in the books category of the US iTunes store features 40 out of 50 apps by the same app developer, Thuat Nguyen. It seems the developer in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166,158,181,172,196,156,118,175],"tags":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8700"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8700\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}