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Apple claims to have blocked the developer from Vietnam, Nguyen Thuat, in case of theft of a number of iTunes user accounts last weekend. According to Apple, Nguyen Thuat was identified to infiltrate approximately 400 iTunes user accounts and use the credit card to boost applications that he made.

In this case, 42 applications made by Thuat Nguyen entered the top 50 applications in bestseller category on iTunes. Apple has removed all the applications and the blocked developers of Vietnam from the list of iTunes.

“Upon the breach of the Program License Agreement including the pattern of fraudulent purchases, Apple has been deleted and application developers from the iTunes store,” Apple said as quoted by the BBC, Wednesday (07/07/2010).

The fraud case was made security level of iTunes came into the spotlight of a lot of people. As a result of fraud cases that happen, Apple said it has tightened its system to prevent similar things.

With the existence of this incident, iTunes users are asked to contact the bank immediately and change their password. iTunes also apply more layers of security by asking users to enter credit card security numbers multiple times during a transaction.

Thuat Nguyen possibility of data theft iTunes users with a way of phishing, namely providing a web page that looks like iTunes to trap important information, such as credit card data and passwords. However, Apple makes sure the attack was experienced only 400 people from 150 million iTunes users worldwide. There was no statement on whether Apple will also bear the losses that befell the victims.

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