Well this is definitely not happening here in india.
On 03-May-2012, at 4:00 PM, archiegrapa@yahoo.com wrote:
> I read from a news article last year about how stolen (hacked) iTunes accounts are being openly sold in some Chinese cities.
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> I'll try to google if I can find it.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sanjaya Kanoria <wsbunter@gmail.com>
> Sender: apple-iphone@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Thu, 3 May 2012 11:10:59
> To: apple-iphone@yahoogroups.com<apple-iphone@yahoogroups.com>
> Reply-To: apple-iphone@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: [apple-iphone] iTunes users griping about Apple's security questions
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> Chuck,
> That sounds really scary. nothing like this has happened to me before but taking a cue from what you say I think it would be prudent to change all one's passwords regularly. obviously there are forces beyond my ken which are working in vast infinities of cyberspace.
> Sanjay
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> DICTATED USING SIRI! That accounts for the loss of capital letters and some punctuation. Voice-recognition software is the next big thing that's going to alter the way the written word appears.
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> On 03-May-2012, at 7:43 AM, Charles <the_chuckmann@yahoo.com> wrote:
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> > Sanjaya,
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> > Like you, I had a similarly complex 8 digit password of both letters and numbers. I also felt "safe".
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> > Yet about a month ago, I received a n email containing a warning notification that someone had downloaded an app from a computer that was not my usual computer. I verified that the email was from Apple, and that the app was, in fact, purchased.
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> > Gladly, it was only a "free app" that was downloaded. But since I was obviously hacked, costly purchases could have occurred.
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> > Of course, I immediately changed my password; and I also deauthorized all computers. I only have one computer - but yet, more than one was shown authorized; I think three - the only other computer that I used to have authorized I still own, and it is not even connected to the internet, and it does not have iTunes loaded on it anymore.
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> > So, someone somewhere had my iTunes email address (not the one this email is sent from) AND they also had my 8 digit, letters and numbers password, and they had a computer authorized with my information.
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> > My new password is 12 digits, letters and numbers, some caps and some small, etc.... Also, I occasionally check to see if there are new computers authorized.
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> > I agree with others; I thought the new questions were not the best questions, too. But, I am proof that even a relatively complex password can be hacked, so the extra layer of security is not really a bad thing.
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> > Chuck F.
> > NE PA
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> > From: Sanjaya Kanoria <wsbunter@gmail.com>
> > To: "apple-iphone@yahoogroups.com" <apple-iphone@yahoogroups.com>
> > Sent: Wednesday, May 2, 2012 7:35 PM
> > Subject: Re: [apple-iphone] iTunes users griping about Apple's security questions
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> > Why, pray, do we need these additional security layers? They made me use a password with eight characters of which at least one was a capital letter and one a numeral. I'd think it nigh impossible to break into my account.
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