Fraudulent Charges for App purchases
(This is kinda long)
Before ChristmasI purchased (2) $50 iTunes Gift Cards (for $40 each from Best Buy, great deal!). I redeemed the cards and downloaded an EP for $4.99.
2 days ago I received an iTunes receipt for $41.89 then another for $41.85. I changed my iTunes Store password and contacted Apple. They were quick and nice kindly instructed me to make sure that no "misunderstanding has occurred in regards to these purchases" (i.e. no one else in my house purchased the apps without my knowledge).
iTunes shows the purchases at 3:30-5:00AM when myself, my wife and 11 week old twins were all asleep. However...the apps that were downloaded are all right here on my 17" MacBookPro.
My question is how and why could this happen? Could someone hack my account and download the apps to my laptop? The apps were from a bunch of different developers.
Is there anyway for me to see the activity that was going on with my machine at that time of the morning?
Finally, over the past 2 days I did notice that XCode was running several times...and I don't remember launching the program. Could that be associated with this issue?
Thanks in advance.
Delane
Very odd.
If your account had been hacked, then the apps would have been downloaded to the hackers computer, not yours.
The only way that I know of that the apps would be on your computer is if they were purchased and downloaded from that computer.
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