“Apple followed up with me late this afternoon to my question about the number of iTunes accounts that had been compromised.,” Clayton Morris reports.
“Turns out, not that many,” Morris reports. “Apple told me that an extremely small percentage of users, about 400 of the 150 million iTunes users – that is less than 0.0003% of iTunes users, were impacted.”
Morris reports, “To the question of whether the iTunes servers themselves were ever in any danger of hackery Apple says that the iTunes servers were not compromised in any way. Apple says that starting today they’re implementing a new security measure [more frequent credit card CCV code entries] to minimize this type of fraud in the future.”
Full article here.
[Attribution: MacRumors. Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “James W.” for the heads up.]
I noticed yesterday that my iTunes account required my credit card security code to let me make a change to the account, just several days after a similar requirement. This explains why.
Was it 400 accounts or 45000? Because 0.0003% of 150,000,000 is 45000. Just wondering.
@ditchdoc
0.0003% of 150,000,000 is 450 not 45,000
however 400 / 150,000,000 and then rounded equates to 0.0003%
still a very small proportion
@ditchdoc68
No, 0.0003% is 450. You multiplied by 0.0003 as a number, not a percent.
0.0003% = 0.000003 decimal
i.e. 0.0003% / 100 = 0.000003
.000003 * 150,000,000 = 450
Just Sayin.
@fenman
I humbly stand corrected.
If your account was raided it’s a big percent.
Actually, it doesn’t change the percentage at all. You would simply be on the crappy end of the ratio.
It’s the users fault
So how was this done? Nothing was compromised but fraud was committed?
What is the real story here?
When did this story break? I heard nothing about it until I read this article.
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What is the cover-up here. Why does Apple not have to explain this? If any other company pulled this type of garbage MDN and the rest of the tech media would be all over them. But it’s Apple, so it’s okay…
You won’t read news like that here until Apple says they’ve dealt with. If a virus breaks for the Mac, MDN will wait until Apple has a fix for it ( which is usually quick ) and then spin a positive title like: “Apple releases security patch”
Where is the rest of the story?
When and how were accounts ‘compromised’?
Apple iTunes servers were not compromised in any way. This still leaves doubts in Apple’s iTunes security system…
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