Last night the AppStore celebrated 2 years since its official launch and a Chinese man thought it would be good to celebrate this day by fraudulently using some iTunes accounts to buy his own applications from the AppStore. If last time it was about the "Books" section and some applications of a Vietnamese, now the "Travel" section has been compromised and the purchased applications belong to a Chinese developer called WiShii.
Notice in the image above that several applications with the same icon are in the top of the most purchased applications in a section that has 12.000 applications. So WiShii bought its own apps, many times, to bring them to the top, but the purchases were made using stolen iTunes accounts, thus charging other people's credit cards. A user a reported that 34 purchases worth $169 were made on his card, all of them for WiShii's applications.
Ars reader Harper Reed contacted us to detail the problem. His account was used earlier today to purchase 34 of WiiSHii Network's apps without his permission, for a total of $168.89. The apps appear to mostly be travel guides for cities in China, and come in both English and Chinese versions—oddly enough, Reed ostensibly bought both.
The joke is starting to get bigger, and Apple doesn't seem to be taking any measures to stop these attacks, so I advise you to be careful what applications you buy these days from the AppStore.
