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An unknown but large number of Apple users accidentally received emails about iTunes Connect billing or banking information, even if they are not iTunes Connect users.
In the span of a few hours on July 27, 2022, the wrong iTunes Connect emails were sent en masse. All users who received one should therefore have received an apology, but AppleInsider employees have seen inconsistencies, with several accounts receiving apologies from those who got the error.
In the emails sent to AppleInsider, the iTunes Connect warning related to banking information. Users were told to update their banking information to receive payments from iTunes Connect.
It is not possible to become an iTunes Connect user unknowingly, even though the service is free. Authors, musicians, and developers sign up for iTunes Connect to distribute their works across Apple MusicApple Books and the App Store.
It seems that I became a musician overnight – and iTunes Connect was the first to know.
Judging by the headers, the email was sent by Apple’s servers. But since App Store Connect shows no problems with my bank details and many others have also received the mail, it looks like a technical error. pic.twitter.com/SGgWNzdtCY
— Felix Schwarz (@felix_schwarz) July 28, 2022
The emails were clearly a mistake, and Apple has at least tried to apologize to anyone who received one, sometimes before the original email asking for bank details arrived. But the fact that even people who have never heard of iTunes Connect have received a warning from iTunes Connect is more serious.
as the AppleInsider feature about how you create ebooks on a Mac, some of Apple’s back-end systems can be an old hodgepodge. They run on elements coming from various companies that Apple has acquired, and appear to have seen little further development in many years.