Apple refunds dad's iOS app store bill for 8-year-old's unauthorized in-app purchases

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Despite Apple putting in safe guards for unauthorized in-app purchases, but the company still had to shell out more than $6,131.00 due to an 8-year-old’s purchases that he made while inside an iOS app.

Lee Neale, 43, says that his daughter spent £2,000 in six days on 74 transactions playing Campus Life, My Horse, Hay Day, and Smurfs’ Village. Neale claims he only became aware of the expenditures when his bank froze his account.

His daughter knew her father’s password by watching him enter it in when he installed the games, so that’s why she could get to the in-app purchases and run up the big bill.

Initially, Apple had refused toy reimburse Neale. But over the past weekend, he got a call from Apple:

“Apple called me to say they will be refunding the money I have lost and apologized for closing my case so early. It has really saved my bacon.”