Massachusetts Attorney General to investigate iTunes fraud !!!

[INDRANIL]

Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley announced Tuesday that her office will be investigating Apple Computers to determine if they are in compliance with her state's data breach notification laws. Coakley spoke at a business luncheon at the Massachusetts' Advanced Cyber Security Center (ACSC), where she was reaching out to business leaders to assure them that compliance with the regulations would not be burdensome if they simply complied with the notification requirements. Coakley herself was a victim of identity theft recently and her stolen credit card details were used to successfully make fraudulent iTunes purchases.

Many users choose poor passwords for iTunes and the App Store because they must enter this password from their mobile device. Entering a complex 20 character passphrase with punctuation isn't something most of us choose to do from our phones.

The other common problem is password re-use. Many friends of mine have had their iTunes accounts compromised after other major data loss events at other organizations.

Attackers will frequently use purloined emails and passwords to attempt authentication at Facebook, Twitter, Gmail and iTunes. If you aren't using unique passwords for sensitive accounts you may have your account used for a scam as well.

Poor user with their poor password knowledge . Don't laugh on them just be careful about yourself . Have a nice day.

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[Bearcat]

Sounds like she made a mistake herself and is now using her office to take it out on companies like Apple. Typical politician!!! I agree Indra, you shouldn't blame some one else, if you are too lazy to implement a good password.