Monthly Archives: July 2022

Mass email from iTunes Connect about banking info was sent in error

By news@appleinsider.com (William Gallagher) An unknown but large number of Apple users were mistakenly sent emails about iTunes Connect billing or banking details — even if they are not iTunes Connect users.Over a span of a few hours on July 27, 2022, the incorrect iTunes Connect emails were sent out en masse. All users who received one should then have also received an apology, but AppleInsider staff have seen inconsistencies, with different accounts getting apologies from those that got the error.In the emails sent to AppleInsider, the iTunes Connect warning concerned banking details. Users were being told that they had to update their banking details in order to get payments from iTunes Connect. …

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Russia tried to hijack some of Apple’s internet traffic for 12 hours

By news@appleinsider.com (William Gallagher) For a period of around 12 hours, Russia’s Rostelecom tried repeatedly to route users of Apple services through own servers, even through countermeasures applied by Apple engineers.Rostelecom is Russia’s largest internet provider and for a period of just over 12 hours, it repeatedly tried to hijack traffic intended for Apple services. It can’t be established whether this was a deliberate attempt or an internet configuration error, but Rostelecom made what are called false route announcements that could make internet connections to to its servers instead of Apple’s.MANRS, an organization that works “to reduce the most common routing threats,” says that Russia …

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Apple & Google facing new class action lawsuit in Portugal over 30% app store fees

By news@appleinsider.com (Mike Peterson) Apple and Google have been hit by class action complaints in Portugal alleging that their 30% app marketplace commission rates are “anticompetitive and excessive.”App StoreThe claims, filed with the Portuguese Competition Court by a Portuguese law school professor, seek damages amounting up to 100 million euros. According to Hausfeld, the law firm …

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