“Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley said on Tuesday that her office would be inquiring into long-standing complaints about fraudulent purchases that leverage Apple’s popular online music store,” Paul Roberts reports for threatpost.
“In a lunchtime address to business and technology leaders in Massachusetts, Coakley said she was a victim of identity theft in recent months, and that her stolen credit card information was used to make fraudulent iTunes purchases,” Roberts reports. “When asked (by Threatpost) about whether such fraud constitutes a reportable event under the Bay State’s strict data breach notification law, Coakley said that her office would be looking into that question and demanding answers from Cupertino, California based Apple.”
Roberts reports, “Coakley was speaking before an audience of technology and business leaders at an inaugural lunch for Massachusetts’ Advanced Cyber Security Center (ACSC). Coakley said that her investment in protecting consumers from identity theft was personal, acknowledging that her bank account was emptied after cyber criminals stole her debit card information during a ski trip to New Hampshire… Informed of the well documented pattern of fraud through iTunes, in which stolen credit cards or bogus iTunes gift cards are matched with compromised iTunes accounts and used to purchase merchandise, Coakley said she wasn’t aware of the larger pattern, but that it could be a reportable offense under the State’s data privacy law. She promised her office would be contacting Apple for more information that very afternoon – a statement that received hearty applause from the audience.”
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MacDailyNews Take: A fool and her money are soon parted.