eBook publisher hacks Apple sales figures

Interesting nugget from Info Week about an e-book publisher who hacked Apple’s app store to make it appear his titles were bestsellers:

Apple removed a seller from its online applications store after discovering that he gamed the store’s sales ranking system to make it appear as though his e-books accounted for 42 of the site’s top 50 electronics books.

Apple said the hack was carried about by a developer named Thuat Nguyen.

“His apps were removed from the App Store for violating the developer Program License Agreement, including fraudulent purchase patterns,” Apple said in a statement.

via InformationWeek.

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