Tuesday July 06, 2010
Hundreds of Apple customers fall victim to hacker in app scam
Kevin Rawlinson
Independent
If Apple didn't notice that 41 of its 50 top-rated e-books in the US were in Vietnamese and the work of the same, unknown publisher, then alarm bells should have sounded when customer reviews talked not of ripping yarns, but of online scams.
Nevertheless, Apple was struggling to explain last night how hundreds of its customers had apparently become victims of a scam in which a phantom developer, named Thuat Nguyen, hacked into their accounts and used them to artificially inflate the ratings and sales for his book applications, or apps.
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