Call it a lesson in password protection. The parents of a five-year-old boy in England are regretting handing over their iTunes password after the youngster managed to rack up over $2,500 worth of purchases on the family's iPad.
In the middle of a dinner party, the boy's mother gave him the Apple password so that he could download and play the free app Zombies vs Ninjas. When the child ran into trouble defeating the enemy, he made a series of in-app purchases to stock up on weapons for his digital assault.
This incident comes on the heels of a recent Apple settlement in a case where the Cupertino company was accused of making in-app purchases too easy.

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