I know that recently Apple has been giving away user data willy nilly recently but I never thought I’d get in on the act. A couple of weeks ago I bought a graphics card for my shiny new Mac Pro. It arrived and like a doofus I’d ordered the wrong thing. Never fear says I laughing in the face of my own stupidity all I have to do is log on to the Apple website and organise a return. The returns process was a piece of cake and said graphics card was back with Apple in a matter of days.
Get on with it I hear you cry. Ok, I have a mailbox for emails from Apple that I rarely read. It’s the mailbox where all the iTunes and Apple store receipts go. I rarely check it but today I noticed there were 47 items in it. Odd, I hadn’t bought that much stuff recently. Turns out it was confirmation of the receipt of my returned graphics card and that of 46 other people who’d done the same thing. They were pan-european emails too. On closer inspection the emails only gave me the name of the person retuning the goods so nothing major has left the Apple server but it’s not a good thing by any stretch of the imagination.
Hardly inspires confidence though, does it?
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