Someone May Be Stealing Your Music from iTunes

Posted on 28. Aug, 2010 by Hector Aviles in Blog

New paradigms, like everything else, bring pros and cons. I just read one of the cons in the USA Today newspaper while I was on vacation, which indicated that hackers are getting into people’s iTunes accounts and obtaining (out of your unknown generosity) gift cards codes that they can then resell at a discount openly in the internet to make a quick profit while you get stuck with the bill. You can read the USA Today.com article “Hackers invade iTunes accounts, buy gift card codes” for all the details.

This type of hacking was to be expected. Gift card codes are money, and if there is an online account involved, then the bad guys are going to try to get a hand in to make a profit at your expense. I have a Zune account and can see how we can treat our online music accounts with a bit more leisure than our bank accounts. I was one that had my Zune Marketplace account set at automatic log in. Not anymore!

To avoid falling pray to the bad guys, we need to treat our online music accounts, be that in iTunes, Zune Marketplace, Rhapsody or others, as if they were our online banking accounts, because there is money to be lost just as well.

Using strong passwords, auditing your bill, and other actions recommended for our online banking accounts, can save us some grief with our entertainment account. The article “Keep Thieves Out of Your Bank Account” can give you some good tips to follow.

Safeguard your online music store account, and tell your friends to do the same.