"App Store Beijing" Credit Card Fraud

I've searched online to see if anyone else had a recent credit card number stolen for several $100+ purchases from "App Store Beijing"
I'm trying to find out if it's even relevant to the Apple App Store, or if it's just a fake company name. 
I recently had several charges to make bank account of $103.20, which I quickly noticed and contacted my bank about the incident... they've currently frozen my account and have sent me a new card.
Not saying that it's tied with the incident, but I find it ironic/amusing that I recently visited a local chinese take-out for the first time just two days prior.

Having the same experience here this morning, already called my bank, that's where I found out it went to Beijing, on my online banking it said APP STORE B with no country, two charges a piece for $52.xx and $103.xx.  The latest apps I have gotten were Cut the Rope and Cut the Rope Free, Paper Toss, Talking Santa, AFV, FaceGoo, Pacman, MathBumpHD, Sketcher, Pet Shop, Netflix, and Talking Tom apps, can you tell I have a 7-year-old that plays on my phone.  I do have in-app purchases turned off and have for some time so I don't think that was the case.  The bogus purchases did not show up on my iTunes purchases though.  Went in and took my credit card info off of my iTunes account, not that it is any good now, and changed my Password.  Will start using iTunes cards when I want to purchase something, what a shame though, I thought Apple's security on their apps would be pretty tight.

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