Yikes… !  I’m a statistic.. at 10:30 am.. and 10:30 PM last sunday someone broken into our Itunes account and stole about $5000 by making more than 30 PayPal authorized purchases that were tied to our bank account.  

It was so weird.. I just happened to look at my phone at the right time and notiI was getting a big mess of emails from Itunes.

I immediately called the bank and shut off my account. and declared my debit card compromised.

 notified Paypal and deauthorized and called Apple. My bank and PayPal have been excellent in helping us get out money back. Though it may take a week or so.. I just heard from Apple too.. looks like they’re going to be helpful as well. . Evidently this is related to a known security bug of theirs.

I’m not sure how I feel about the whole event . At some level it was amazing and kind of terrifying.. at another level it’s kind of fascinating.. I recognize the irony that someone (or someones) hacked me just as I was getting better at hacking other peoples wirelesss security. I still claim the moral high ground as I never break in to do mischief or steal data .. I just do it for fun to see if I can.. Is that rationalization ?
Maybe the whole thing is karma.. I guess I should clean up my act..

Nite all. Change your passwords !   Nite Sam..
-me