iTunes under fire for fraudster attacks

Apple's latest headache is security around its iTunes Store. In the UK, the Metropolitan Police's eCrime unit has charged 12 people with fraud and money laundering offences, after they allegedly uploaded tracks to iTunes (and the Amazon MP3 store) and then bought them in bulk using stolen credit cards. But this week, a new brouhaha is emerging in the US, with iTunes App Store users complaining that fraudsters have drained their accounts via PayPal payments for apps. “Darn…what a day! Someone hacked into my itunes account and bought a crap load of downloads and emptied out my paypal account,” writes one angry user. “Paypal is very cooperative but there is just about no way to get ahold of itunes.”