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Wednesday, July 25, 2018 08:40 AM (News – Arab News – Your way to know the truth)
(Arab News – Your way to know the truth) Dozens of Apple customers to Singapore, who have been victims of a series of fraudulent purchases, On the iTunes platform and the App Store, to seek help from their banks after discovering this month- There are multiple discounts and financial transactions via their credit card data, used to make purchases on the App Store and iTunes. .
Apple has denied any responsibility for unauthorized charges, but is investigating the case. Chinese and Singaporean bank customers, including HSBC, UOB, OCBC, Maybank and DBS, have discovered fraudulent purchases worth a few thousand of dollars .
Two people reported holding at least $ 5,000 in their bank accounts, where credit cards had multiple fees with frequent values of over $ 100, while there were 45 separate payments via iTunes before that the bank stops Allow the card to work.
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OCBC reported that 58 cardholders were affected by fraudulent transactions this month, while Maybank reported fewer than 70 cases, and affected customers found supplements through their bank accounts, not through their accounts in iTunes, where scammers seem to use fraudulent iTunes accounts to make purchases. [19699003] OCBC loan officer Vincent Tan said unusual transactions in cardholder accounts were the result of problems with third-party sites that the bank was investigating. "He concluded that the bank advises the owners of vigilance when dealing with third-party sites and contact the bank immediately after any suspicious activity on their card account."
The banks involved attempted to collect payments and replace credit cards of customers affected by the fraud, but Apple has apparently denied responsibility for these fees, adding that a senior consultant of Apple had repeatedly claimed that $ 7 thousand fraudulent charges from his account from HSBC, saying that it was not at all due to Apple or iTunes.
It is not yet clear how the card data were hacked, what is the connection between these fraudulent transactions and the Apple store on the Internet, and if the information indicates that the number of victims used their cards in the App Store, others They said that they did not use their pirated cards with Apple, and the only common link was that unauthorized charges were made by iTunes. Singapore's security forces, banks and Apple would jointly discuss the case
