From the Quartz article:
The company explained to me that a number of gift cards had been intercepted and stolen during delivery to legitimate retailers, including the card I purchased.
In terms of 3rd party sellers, itunes gift cards are sold everywhere. Walgreens, Walmart, Best Buy, Costco, Target, from PayPal via eBay…and basically anyone Apple sells them to. This wasn’t the result of buying from a dodgy site, even Apple admitted it. it was purely Apple’s mishandling of the issue. The site also refunded him …it was MassGenie, according to the Quartz article.
MassGenie, the company who sold me the stolen gift card, also eventually apologized and refunded me for the purchase
