Last night the mobihand store had an issue where some apps were obtained for free. I don't know if it was a hack or a bug but products were delivered with no payment required. About 500 copies of my apps were sold last night all for a price of $0.00 and 99% of the sales were from South Korea. Most of the emails had very similar addresses and most of the users had no account on mobihand when I did a search.
I wrote mobihand about this and they replied with the following:
Thank you for reporting this to us. We have received other similar reports.
We found that a recently installed system update contained an error that enabled some users to obtain products for a price of zero. This error applied to a limited number of products displayed on a limited number of devices and it persisted for several hours.
The error has been corrected and affected orders are being cancelled.
-David
According to my records the issue persisted for approx 14 hours. So if you sell apps on mobihand it would be a good idea to check your reports.
Same here, I had about 150 purchases for 0.00$ yesterday. I pulled the app off from sale but it didn't help much, all downloads came from South Korea so I suspect it was a hack.
Those purchase orders disappeared from Earnings Report but if you have mail notification for every sale, you will see the 0.00$ purchases.
Thank you for reporting this to us. We have received other similar reports.
We found that a recently installed system update contained an error that enabled some users to obtain products for a price of zero. This error applied to a limited number of products displayed on a limited number of devices and it persisted for several hours.
The error has been corrected and affected orders are being cancelled.
-David
How will that help if the "customer" already has the serial code for the app?
