The developer might be totally innocent, we don't know. It's not the app doing this anyway.
It could be simply because the UK has a greater population, but it's still strange. I never had any emails or anything. I'm on a PC (please, no accusations of viruses just because of that), but I'm running Anti-Virus software 24/7, and I haven't even logged onto the iTunes store on my computer in weeks.
~Zack
Canada (according to my app sales at least) is not far behind the UK for iphone use. And the US is way ahead yet has no negative reviews for this issue. Very odd!
The virus question: I'm thinking that a lot of people on this forum use macs. If many of them have this problem, we can probably rule out the virus (it's possible, but pretty unlikely - and I've not heard of a mac virus that steals itunes accounts). And having virus protection is no guarantee unfortunately - we had a PC at work today that was still infected after running 2 different virus scanners in safe mode. It's fully patched and also running virus protection 24/7. Something somehow still got on and is refusing to leave. This is very rare, but can happen, and the people writing these things are finding ways of making money from them.
(And for the record, I run antivirus on my macs these days too

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My daughter's account has had £20 removed apparently for In App purchases from Online. I will be phoning Apple in the morning and try to get a refund.
I don't think it's individual hackers - it can't be a coincidence that the purchases are all for the same app.
Agreed, it's likely a group or one individual. Question is who + how. The big clue is who benefits. The developer gets the money (except the money that's refunded), and whoever hit the buy button keeps what they bought.
If it's the developer, they're taking a huge risk for what seems like a lot of work on a game like this. And they're updating the game with new versions. I can't rule it out, but that doesn't feel right.
If it's gamers? Well, this is a free game with expensive in-app purchases. It's very popular in parts of the world where a lot of gamers are used to paying $0 for their games (I've been there enough to know). I can believe there are people there who'd buy a username and password for a small fee instead of paying $30 and getting it legally.
What other games are popular in places like hong kong + china, that feature lots of in-app purchases? Anyone know?