Sources are reporting that there is a major security hole in iTunes, leading most of the users to empty up their PayPal accounts. Strange though? Let me tell you in detail what it actually is. Does it matters? Indeed it does. People are getting their PayPal empty. Is this an Apple fault? Or it’s the hackers exploiting vulnerabilities in iTunes? Well frankly speaking there is no vulnerability or security hole iTunes.
This is actually a phishing scam to which people are falling for. This phishing scam makes people to buy unauthorized content and lose thousands of dollars. This phishing scam is just another variant of the older on going scam around the web.
Apple has noting to do with this scam, as they don’t compromise that the product is vulnerable. Recently, major increase has been found in fraud transactions.
According to Apple! iTunes is an anti-fraud product it has a password security for the users out there. So there is no point of stealing anything. If your iTunes password is stolen then it is highly recommend that you should contact Apple, and if your credit card password is stolen then contact them who issued you this card. It is also highly recommended that you should change your iTunes password.
You are advised to change your iTunes and credit card password very often, without repeating same password again and again.
via [CNET]
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