From time to time these types of problems occur in Apple accounts around the world, and it is that thieves are increasingly ingenious when trying to get some money from Apple users in general. It is difficult not to find in the SPAM tray almost monthly some phishing email posing as Apple trying to get your user credentials to try to spend on iTunes, without a doubt. In Singapore, numerous fraudulent charges are being reported to iTunes accounts worth hundreds of euros. Now is the time to increase security.
Interestingly, in the case of these "thefts" in Singapore, all users had a bank account at DBS or OCBCIn other words, we do not know whether bank sources have leaked the access data to iTunes accounts through some mechanism, or it was a security failure that had something to do with it. Nearly sixty cases of fraudulent collections have occurred so far in July alone, this is said by Vincent Tan, the Director of Credit Cards at OCBC Bank:
In early July we detected and investigated unusual transactions from up to fifty-eight users of our credit cards. We have confirmed one by one that these transactions are indeed fraudulent, and we have deployed the necessary counter-security measures to assist users who have suffered this theft. Obviously we have started a money back procedure.
All transactions had a common denominatorn, the charge was $ 112,03 in different small transactions, which raised the alarms due to the similarity of the procedure in different users. These charges have not been made in the iOS App Store but through iTunes products, we imagine that they will specifically be cards that are later put on sale.