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Apple reportedly notified its retail stores and authorized service providers about policy changes prohibiting fixing iPhones reported as stolen or missing in the GSMA Device Registry.
Cellebrite, whose name is attached to the FBI for their assistance with unlocking an iPhone, experienced a data breach recently and it appears that some of that data might be finding its way online.
After the theft of two concept gaming notebooks from Razer at CES this month, a listing briefly appeared for the stolen Project Valerie prototypes in China, asking for 150,000 yuan ($21,700 USD).
About 3.2 million debit card details have been stolen by attackers using malware on payment systems in India. Some banks have already blocked the cards, while others have asked users to change PINs.
Bad news has hit bitcoin traders today as one of the popular exchanges, Bitfinex, halted trading after announced it had found a security breach. Currently, $65 million are rumored to be missing.
Various email providers who were allegedly affected by a data breach that was supposed to have exposed over 272 million account credentials now claim that over 98% of these were bogus.
Four individuals have been arrested for supposedly stealing $1 million worth of MacBook Air laptops. The laptops were stored in a suspects home, who had been selling the devices for $500.
If your Apple Watch gets stolen, the thief will have no trouble wiping your data and then using or selling the device, as an apparent bug in Apple's software allows a hard reset without your passcode.
Brits whose phones were stolen have been liable for huge call charges racked up by thieves, with some bills as high as £23,000 - but five carriers have now agreed to limit customer liability to £100.
A man stole an Android tablet from a charity shop in Tyneside, England, but had to return it after eight days. The reason was brilliantly ridiculous: he couldn't figure out how to operate it.
Email addresses, phone numbers, passwords and other user data have been stolen from popular crowdfunding platform Kickstarter after hackers infiltrated the site.
The ability to remotely track a lost of stolen smartphone is great - but it's not 100% accurate, as one man discovered when police broke into his house, following 'Find My iPhone' location data.
A shipment of Blackberry Playbook tablets, worth an estimated $1.7 million, was taken on Thursday in Indiana due to the entire tractor trailer with the tablets inside being stolen from a truck stop.
In recent months, hackers have been targeting high profile institutions in society. The most prominent target of the bunch are Sony and its properties, starting from the PlayStation Network breach and continuing with attacks on...
The PlayStation Network may be on its way to recovery, but it seems online criminals are continuing to wage war with Sony and its properties. Late last week, we reported on an attack on So-net,...
Here's a typical unfortunate scenario: You're out on a trip and somehow your laptop gets stolen. Let's say it's a Macbook. You then remember you were smart enough to install some anti-theft software such as...
What do you do when a thief steals your iPhone, credit cards and all your cash? If you're like one victim in Pittsburgh you will fire up your MobileMe account and use "find my...
Apple's a company well known for secrecy; you'll know so after having read the article we posted about it not too long ago. Though, can this obsession with secrecy actually be harmful to a human...
iPhones are expensive, and some people want them without paying, and so they steal them. PCPro is reporting on one case in which the new "Find My iPhone" feature helped one man and his...
Computer hackers have once again infiltrated the Pentagon's computer system and this time may have gotten away with some valuable data. The government and the Wall Street Journal are both pointing fingers at...
The increasingly popular music streaming service Spotify has revealed that it was the target of malicious hackers at the end of 2008. The Swedish based company issued a statement on its blog yesterday warning "along...
Last week at the Mobile World Congress, many vendors launched their new Windows Phones and one amongst them was HTC which launched two new models - HTC Touch Pro2 and HTC Touch Diamond2. A HTC...
The popular group known as the iPhone Dev Team has worked hard to release an iPhone 3G unlock for no charge to the general public. Their hard work goes unpaid and is only for...
Google has confirmed that personal data of US employees hired prior to 2006 has been stolen in a recent burglary. Records kept at Colt Express Outsourcing Services, an external company Google and other companies...
Clothing company Cotton Traders has been found to have had 38,000 customer credit card numbers taken from its website in an attack earlier this year. The firm has not directly confirmed the size of this...
The theft of contact information for job seekers in the database of Monster was greater than the 1.3 million individuals the company reported last week, Chief Executive Sal Iannuzzi said on Wednesday. While investigating the...
Police have warned drivers not to leave their journey home programmed into their satnav systems following the theft of a device from a car at Alton Towers theme park which directed ne'er-do-wells to the owner's...
Internet security company Symantec claims that Internet fraudsters are donating money to charities as a way to check the validity of stolen credit cards prior to resale. Unfortunately, Symantec doesn't have any figures to indicate...
The Pirate Bay, arguably the largest torrent tracker and easily the most controversial one, has apologetically notified its users that a group of hackers managed to grab a copy of the user database, including usernames,...
Marks & Spencer has become the latest large organisation embroiled in an identity theft-related security flap. A laptop containing salary details, addresses, dates of birth, national insurance and phone numbers of some 26,000 employees...
A laptop containing the personal information on 382,000 current and retired workers of Chicago-based Boeing Co. was stolen from an employee's car earlier this month, according to Boeing spokesman Tim Neale. He declined to say...
Woot.com, a popular "One deal" website, has been called out by MSI and accused of selling stolen video cards. MSI reports that an undisclosed number of 7900GS video cards where stolen during transit. At this...
Online reports today suggest that Microsoft may be considering a major lawsuit over the theft of Xbox 360 development kits. The lawsuit reports appear to stem from a Dutch newspaper story this week,...
Microsoft has shown reports that ten Xbox 360 development kits have been stolen from a warehouse in Duren Germany. There is speculation that the hardware has fallen into the hands of hackers. These 10 development...
Campus police at the University of California, Berkeley have recovered a stolen laptop that contained information of more than 98,000 of the school's graduate students. The laptop's hard drive had been wiped clean of information...
Two computers containing personal information on Motorola Inc. employees were stolen from the mobile phone maker's human resources services provider, Affiliated Computer Services , the latest in a series of incidents of companies losing control...
The personal details of almost 100,000 University of California students have been stolen - and it's all because one laptop was taken from one of the college's campuses. AP reports that the theft actually took...
The motion Picture Association of America is to offer a tool to help users locate illegally downloaded files on their system, the organization said today. The software will be able to scan the system and...
Simple queries using the Google search engine can turn up a handful of sites that have posted credit card information to the Web, CNET News.com learned on Tuesday. The lists of financial...
