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Apple gives away account password

It’s recently to light that Apple developers landing just right to give the password for Marko Karppinen account. He is CEO of MK & C, and software development studio based in Helsinki, Finland, which designs and develops software for Mac. How could such a thing happen? Well, it seems that all the scammer had to do was to send poorly worded message to Apple.

A few days ago Marko Karppinen found much to his surprise that he was unable to log in to Apple developers link. Although their user name and password does not match and clearly has been altered, he was able to regain access to their profile by answering the security question, which is unchanged. Further examination, are found this message in his. Mac mailbox:

"I forget your password of Mac, did not you give me a new password for email Marko [redacted] @ yahoo.com"

It would seem that the attacker send e-mail to Apple, thus managing to obtain the necessary information to access the account. Hackers usually try to get this kind of information through phishing attack the consumer, or hack a service provider. Even with data for hermetic sealing will be more reasonable way to obtain private information. Why worry with such a resource consuming time and effort when all you have to do is ask, and Apple will provide a team? With just one sentence, which reads as bad attacker granted access to Marko's e-mail account, iTunes Store account, iDisk, iPhone developers program. Mac synchronizations, credit card information, and not least its ACD Premier membership, which is worth about $ 3000.

"Frankly, this makes me so angry that I can not see straight. Would you even begin to assess the value of work must do to ensure all the information that you are compromised? How do you propose to restore confidence that I, or indeed someone, sometime must keep confidential for everything that you systems again?" said Marko Karppinen of your blog.

In Apple developer’s arrival of European support team contacted Mark and told him that he would do everything possible to fix the problem as soon as possible. They expressed their deepest regret on this issue and said incidents like this should not happen.

Marko most recent publication says that Apple is not re-contact with him yet, although a considerable amount of time has passed. "The ratio continues to receive a password requests, but as people said these are safe unless one of Apple Overrides procedure manual"

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