Carl Sykes, a 27-year-old from Pensacola, faces grand theft charges for stealing 171 iPhones while employed at UPS. Arrested Thursday…
Tag: iPhone theft
Burglars make off with $100,000 in Apple products after rappelling through Best Buy ceiling
Police said the thieves rappelled through a hole in the ceiling at the store on Hammond Drive…
Badass 12-year-old girl wrestles with iPhone snatcher
A 12-year-old girl in Derby, England, was attacked and robbed of her iPhone 6s…
Crazy thieves steal iPhones from moving truck
The men are accused of stealing iPhones worth 500,000 euros…
Thief dresses up as Target worker, steals $40,000 worth of iPhones; still at large (security camera images)
Detectives in Virginia are looking for a woman who disguised herself as a Target employee…
Foxconn manager indicted for stealing 5,700 iPhones, worth $1.56 million
A former senior manager at Taiwan’s technology giant Foxconn has been indicted for stealing and selling 5,700 iPhones…
Stealing iPhones from the Apple Store is easy: Just wear a blue shirt
Last week in New York City, a man entered the SoHo Apple Store wearing what was visually close enough to the Apple employee uniform…
Apple’s kowtow to China undermines Obama’s tough talk on snooping or something
US president Barack Obama was sharply critical of China’s newest security demands…
I caught the thief who stole my iPhone 6 Plus
You often hear about phones getting stolen, but I never thought it would happen to me…
Ex-NSA lawyer says encryption could ‘BlackBerry’ Apple and Google
The battle over encryption of consumer internet users’ data…
U.S. NSA director makes another visit to Silicon Valley
Adm. Michael S. Rogers, director of the National Security Agency, said on Monday…
Edward Snowden’s privacy tips: ‘Get rid of Dropbox,” avoid Facebook and Google
According to Edward Snowden, people who care about their privacy should stay away from Google, Facebook, and Dropbox…
Apple’s iPhone encryption is a godsend, even if government snoops and cops hate it
It took the upheaval of the Edward Snowden revelations to make clear to everyone…
Short-timer U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder blasts Apple for protecting users’ privacy against government overreach
U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder urged Apple to preserve law-enforcement access to smartphones…
Signaling post-Snowden era, Apple’s iPhone, iPad lock out N.S.A.
This distinguishes Apple from companies that make a profit from collecting and selling users’ personal data to advertisers…
What if Osama bin Laden had an iPhone?
Apple’s decision to release a mobile operating system that is so thoroughly encrypted that the company cannot unlock its devices for authorities…
FBI blasts Apple for protective users’ privacy by locking government, police out of iPhones and iPads
FBI Director James B. Comey sharply criticized Apple on Thursday…
No, by safeguarding user’s privacy, Apple is not picking a fight with the U.S. or any other government
Apple is setting a precedent that users, and not companies, should hold the keys to their own devices…
Me-too Google: Uh, okay, we’ll do default encryption like Apple, too (it’ll just take several years to roll out)
The next generation of Google’s Android operating system…
Apple’s iOS Activation Lock reduces iPhone thefts, Samsung phone thefts skyrocket
In New York City, iPhone thefts and robberies dropped 29 and 19 percent…
iPhone thief’s mother praises victim who caught her son
The mom of an accused teen iPhone thief has a message for the Brooklyn woman…
New York City Council considers pawn shop bill to fight surging iPhone thefts
The Council held a hearing Monday on a bill that would require second hand dealers…
Smartphone thefts probed by state, city prosecutors as companies fail to act to their liking
Top state and city law enforcement officials on Thursday will announce an expansive investigation…
Apple reveals iOS 7 theft deterrent feature ‘Activation Lock’ ahead of gov’t meeting on crime
Ahead of a meeting with government officials later this month to discuss…
