Q: iTunes store account hacked

Hello same thing happend to be but two days ago and this company took it of me and bought bizar apps

tem Artist Type Unit Price 帝國 Online, 5850銀幣禮包, Seller: GAMEISLIVE CORPORATION LIMITED Lakoo In App Purchase -$5.49 帝國 Online, 23400銀幣禮包, Seller: GAMEISLIVE CORPORATION LIMITED Lakoo In App Purchase -$20.99 Order Total: -$26.48   it took all my money so i contacted the itunes thing which they kindly refunded my 26.48 and i cchanged my password but again today i got annother bill which is listed up above telling my i have bought the same thing as two days ago again ..... HACKED HELP sombody i dont trust itunes and am not using it till it is all sorted

It might just be the receipt that you received in your email from the purchase - Apple usually sends them about 2 days later.

I got the same **** thing. Fortunately it was for my Japan I-tunes which only had a gift card saved in it. My American i-tunes had a credit card linked, so I un-linked it. I am going to definitely jump ship from I-tunes now. They are losing my trust BIG TIME with this app breach. Any app that can directly access your credit card without your permission is beyond an ultimate failure. Do your best to get credits back, use your credits, then get your files out while you can. That's just my opinion though, if you trust I-tunes/Apple enough, for sure wait it out and hope for the best. I'd rather not end up having to battle $300+ in charges because Apple/Itunes didn't shut down the app when they should have.

last day my account got hacked, they stole for 700 € worth of imobsters credits in 28 times!!!, its paid trough my clickandbuy account, wich links itunes to my bank account, i mailed supprt jesterday also, what to do? im desperate? i need help on this

Greetings bas from holland

Never had my account hacked before. I run linux or apple and have been using itunes store over a year. Then I redeemed a gift card a few weeks ago and now my account was hacked into and my credit funds nearly wiped out except for a 97p. They purchased 3 chinese apps and cleared my cc details. Emailed Apple and they disabled my account and refunded my credit funds. Also phoned cc company and disabled my card. This must be a flaw in their itunes store system or some compromised app that knows if we got online credit funds.

Same happened. I had $53 and now i only have $0.73 left. My billing addresse has been changed too. I changed my password and hope to get my money/credit back.

I had my an old iTunes account hacked yesterday. Luckily it's only "kept alive" as I have some older media files that were bought using it and the CC that it was setup with had already expired. The "nice person" who hacked into it changed the CC to something that was most likely stolen (it was refused, by the look of the alert next to it in the account info) but he still managed to squeeze about $35 out of it before I could do anything about it.

I susupect my VM was infected with a keylogger as that was the only windows machine I'd ever used to access that account via iTunes. Lesson learnt

Could someone set up a Facebook page aimed at Apple doing something to stop these hackings from happenings days!!) and to stop ignoring email requests from people who have been defrauded?(it's the only thing people tame notice of th Being as Watchdog ignored my letter about this I don't really know who else we should be raising this with?

It looks like the iTunes problems are finally getting some needed attention.

http://www.macworld.com/article/162199/2011/09/itunes_towson_hack.html

Macworld Podcast

which links to this article

http://www.macworld.com/article/161794/2011/09/the_towson_hack_the_mystery_of_di sappearing_itunes_credit.html

Which pulls quotes from this very thread

Maybe now this will make Apple admit there is a problem.

Just found my way here via the MacWorld article...

This happened to me Friday, but with a bit of variation (which may appear elsewhere in these pages, I'm not sure.)

Apple emailed me about a change in account info on Friday morning, which I read immediately on my iPhone since I'd just woken up a few minutes before. I hopped out of bed to check my account on my computer and noticed that my Kentucky address & zip code had been changed to San Francisco variants. My paltry $3.02 of store credit remained intact, nothing had been purchased and there were no apparent uses of my credit card, but all my credit card info was replaced with what I can only imagine was someone else's...

I called the credit card company in question (VISA) with that card information but either they were extremely confused about the fact that I wasn't a cardholder myself or their scripted response options didn't allow them to confirm that they followed the story, because none of their responses fit the details I provided. Before getting off the phone I tried to get some assurance that they understood the story by asking things like, "...and you understand that I myself am not a VISA cardholder?" to which they could reply "yes" or "no," which sounds a bit condescending but seemingly allowed them the opprotunity to finally express understanding 'off-book.'

they hacked me but they changed my country of origin to china then changed my cc info to a card that does not belong to me, and started to buy apps, chinese apps. i think it was because i didnt have but a dollar and change in my account so they used someone elses i feel sry for those people. the total was around $50.00 total. i cant really tell what they bought because the invoice email is in chinese. all i know is its not my card they used.

@amelia_blanch:  Take another look at that second invoice.  It has minus signs in front of the dollar amounts.  That's your refund.

This happened to me, as the $100 apple gift card was depleted to $10 in a matter of 2 days after I purchased a new macbook air at  APPLE STORE in TOWSON. Its  my first mac purchased and I have a horrible experience. First the sales person said it doesnt come with lion, then when ask about other mac stuff, advice me to go to youtube to learn, said thats what he do.  No wonder he doesnt know that the new macbook air comes with OSX Lion.  Then he ask me to log my account to one of the demo computer.  I ask if it is safe to do so, he said its secured. I doubted him because I see someones facebook account and email account still log in.  But I did log on to my account anyhow, he has a way of assuring me that macs doesnt get virus and the computers in the store are secured.  What a mistake not trusting my gut feeling, now I have to contact apple support to get back my stolen credits.  I search the internet about this, and what a coincidence that its called the TOWSON HACK and its been happening for more than a year.  I should have bought at best buy, maybe I might have had a better experience, and maybe those hackers wont use my account to purchase imobster in-app money.  Apple please take care of your customers, so you wont lose their trust.

The same thing has happened to me, Name and Credit Card information changed.  I've quickly reset my password.  The odd thing is the hacker only puchased a free app? 'v2.6, Developer: Pearl-in-palm information...  Pearl-in-palm information'.

Very odd!

This morning I received a bona fide Apple warning email that my Account info had (Name, Shipping Address, Credit Card) been changed. I checked and nothing appears changed although the CC info may have been wiped out. So I changed the password immediately.

Clearly Apple has a MAJOR SECURITY problem, as this is an account I rarely if ever use. It is obviously affecting thousands and thousands of people.