Apple tightens iPhone App Store security

Written by Gary McArthur Thursday, 29 July 2010 06:32

Responding to piracy problems in the iTunes App Store, Apple has instituted stronger security measures to protect users' accounts, according to AppleInsider.

Earlier this month, iTunes was hit by account fraud that resulted in a few hundred users — a relatively tiny proportion of iTunes accounts — discovering as much as several hundred dollars' worth of unauthorised charges on their accounts.

Apple responded by immediately deleting specific developers who appeared to be using the fraudulent purchases to inflate their sales rank. Now there is a new layer of security which requires account holders to enter their credit card security code on each new computer or device they register with their account.