Earlier this week an iTunes account I have not used in years, (frankly I forgot I even had it), was hacked into. Unfortunately, this acct. was linked to my Paypal acct. and mayhem ensued. They attempted to suck out appx $4K. Fortunately, I don't keep anything like that in this savings acct. It exists solely to move $ to me from PP (eBay auctions) so I only lost about $25 sitting in my PP acct (I filed a dispute).
But here is my question for those of you who know more about how these scams work: how did the scammers know my email address was also a valid iTunes acct? The email address used for this iTunes acct isn't used for any other Internet acct except Paypal, and the two accts do not share a password. As said, I haven't used this iTunes account in years, so I think I can scratch off clickjacking, trojans, worms, etc. Also the fraud was isolated to this one iTunes acct. (I have two others).
But here is my question for those of you who know more about how these scams work: how did the scammers know my email address was also a valid iTunes acct? The email address used for this iTunes acct isn't used for any other Internet acct except Paypal, and the two accts do not share a password. As said, I haven't used this iTunes account in years, so I think I can scratch off clickjacking, trojans, worms, etc. Also the fraud was isolated to this one iTunes acct. (I have two others).