I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that these people got a trojan on a Windows machine which logged their keyboard while the users were accessing their iTunes accounts. Otherwise I think it would have been a whole helluvalot more.
Everything Apple does with security is AES based. I have not heard of anyone trying to "crack" an AES hash. I went to a security conference once, where they announced that to crack an MD5 hash (think Windows XP/2000 Logins) a fairly complex password could be brute forced in anywhere from 5 minutes to two hours. The same password in AES-256 would take 1.2 million years. Bob On Jan 7, 2011, at 7:14 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: > While only 50,000 of the several million accounts have been hacked, it may be > good to err on the safe side and review the recent transactions for your > account and update the password; I just did both here. > > > Hacked iTunes accounts sold online > <http://china.globaltimes.cn/society/2011-01/609351.html> > > More: > <http://www.google.com/search?q=Hacked+Apple+iTunes+accounts+sell+in+China> > > > -- > Richard Gaskin > Fourth World > LiveCode training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com > Webzine for LiveCode developers: http://www.LiveCodeJournal.com > LiveCode Journal blog: http://LiveCodejournal.com/blog.irv > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
