March 10, 2020

Ex-Inspector General indicted for stealing data on 250k govt colleagues

Crime doesn't pay, even if you have the audacity to try to sell your employer its own, free software and personal data on your own colleagues.

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April 25, 2019

Teen sues Apple for $1 billion over Apple stores’ facial recognition

He claims that Apple allegedly uses the technology to spot shoplifters and that it falsely linked him to a series of Apple store thefts.

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July 30, 2018

Prisoners exploit tablet vulnerability to steal nearly $225K

364 of them hacked the JPay tablets they use for email, music and games and transferred money into their own accounts.

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July 06, 2018

SIM card in bird’s GPS tracker used to rack up $2,700 phone bill

Researchers assumed the bird was dead when its GPS signal stopped moving. A few weeks later the team received a giant phone bill.

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August 05, 2016

Bitcoin robber offers $600K “giveaway”

Reddit user rekcahxfb says they're planning to give away 1,000 bitcoins next Wednesday

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January 29, 2016

Dad found not guilty for taking away his daughter’s iPhone

She was reportedly organizing an attack on another kid, so he took it away as punishment. Jailed though he was, he's still got the phone.

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May 21, 2015

Apple Watch lets nimble-fingered crooks use your Apple Pay

Nimble-fingered crooks can exploit the one-second lag before Watch senses it's off a wrist and asks for a passcode.

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January 09, 2015

Zappos data breach: settlement reached

Zappos, an online clothing and shoe retailer, has reached a settlement over a 2012 data breach which impacted up to 24 million of its customers.

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January 08, 2015

“Goldmine for burglars” hole closed in Immobilise national property register

It was a burglar's dream: A list with 28+ million records of expensive toys. Customers' names, addresses, lists of valuables, and even the gizmos' monetary values were all easy pickings.

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