Neowin News Feed for: Stolen

Tech Tip Tuesday: How to Prevent a thief from disabling your iPhone tracking

Adam Bottjen — Tue, 24 Jan 2023 15:16:01 +0000

Being able to access the control center from a locked iPhone is useful, but it can also be useful for a thief, join us today to find out how to turn off the control center for a locked iPhone. Read more...

Apple will not fix iPhones marked as missing or stolen

Taras Buria — Wed, 30 Mar 2022 07:34:01 +0000

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. Read more...

Hacking tools allegedly used in Cellebrite products find their way online

Timi Cantisano — Sat, 04 Feb 2017 03:42:02 +0000

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. Read more...

Razer's stolen Project Valerie gaming notebooks appear on sale in China, priced at $21,700

Andy Weir — Mon, 16 Jan 2017 10:21:34 +0000

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). Read more...

Debit card details of 3.2 million customers stolen in India, banks begin blocking cards

Shreyas Gandhe — Thu, 20 Oct 2016 10:44:01 +0000

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. Read more...

A supposed $65 million worth of bitcoins disappeared from Bitfinex exchange

Vlad Dudau — Wed, 03 Aug 2016 06:44:01 +0000

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. Read more...

Google, Mail.ru and Yahoo claim that more than 98% of the leaked credentials were bogus

Usama Jawad — Sat, 07 May 2016 10:52:01 +0000

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. Read more...

Four men arrested over $1 million MacBook heist

Matt Brown — Tue, 08 Sep 2015 15:32:01 +0000

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. Read more...

It's surprisingly easy to wipe a stolen Apple Watch without the passcode

Andy Weir — Thu, 14 May 2015 13:26:01 +0000

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. Read more...

UK mobile networks agree to £100 liability cap for customers whose phones are stolen

Andy Weir — Sun, 22 Mar 2015 17:06:01 +0000

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. Read more...

NeoBytes :) Thief returns tablet to charity shop due to his inability to use it

Usama Jawad — Tue, 30 Dec 2014 08:26:01 +0000

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. Read more...

Kickstarter hacked, user info stolen

Jett Goldsmith — Sun, 16 Feb 2014 05:12:37 +0000

Email addresses, phone numbers, passwords and other user data have been stolen from popular crowdfunding platform Kickstarter after hackers infiltrated the site. Read more...

Police burst into wrong house to recover stolen iPhone

Andy Weir — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 07:20:22 +0000

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. Read more...

$1.7 million worth of Blackberry Playbooks stolen in Indiana

John Callaham — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 01:29:34 +0000

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. Read more...

Hackers accessed information from 200,000 Citi cardholders

Denis Wong — Thu, 09 Jun 2011 08:20:44 +0000

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... Read more...

Sony services attacked: personal information and encrypted passwords stolen

Denis Wong — Wed, 25 May 2011 08:55:46 +0000

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,... Read more...

Stolen laptop recovered thanks to Prey and swarm of Twitter users

Denis Wong — Sun, 15 May 2011 11:49:29 +0000

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... Read more...

Stolen iPhone recovered using "Find my iPhone"

Brad Sams — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 12:46:43 +0000

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... Read more...

Foxconn worker commits suicide after losing iPhone prototype

Sam Symons — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 11:12:58 +0000

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... Read more...

'Find My iPhone' used to catch a thief

James Hall — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 10:27:56 +0000

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... Read more...

Pentagon computers hacked, several terabytes of data stolen

Brad Sams — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 12:59:56 +0000

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... Read more...

Spotify hacked, user data stolen

Tom Warren — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 14:19:04 +0000

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... Read more...

Stolen HTC phone with Windows Mobile 6.5 wiped remotely

Chakkaradeep Chandran — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 10:41:49 +0000

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... Read more...

iPhone Dev Team software stolen and resold

Brad Sams — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 19:55:10 +0000

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... Read more...

Google employee details stolen in burglary

Tom Warren — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 08:55:58 +0000

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... Read more...

Card details stolen in web hack

Tue, 10 Jun 2008 21:11:21 +0000

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... Read more...

Monster says millions of users' data may be stolen

Tom Warren — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 08:06:02 +0000

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... Read more...

Stolen satnav guides thieves to owner's home

Daniel Fleshbourne — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 11:09:35 +0000

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... Read more...

Fraudsters Use Charities Before Selling Stolen Credit Cards

Sat, 07 Jul 2007 21:44:08 +0000

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... Read more...

The Pirate Bay: User data stolen but not unsecured

Sat, 12 May 2007 23:12:50 +0000

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,... Read more...

M&S in ID theft flap over stolen laptop

Tom Warren — Wed, 09 May 2007 12:23:28 +0000

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... Read more...

Boeing laptop with data on 382,000 employees stolen

Steven Parker — Fri, 15 Dec 2006 11:56:39 +0000

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... Read more...

MSI - Stolen Video Cards

Fri, 22 Sep 2006 20:36:15 +0000

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... Read more...

Microsoft Might Sue Over Stolen X360 Devkits

Sun, 23 Oct 2005 12:10:26 +0000

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,... Read more...

Xbox 360 development kits stolen in Germany

Mon, 10 Oct 2005 18:16:44 +0000

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... Read more...

UC Berkeley Recovers Stolen Laptop

Fri, 16 Sep 2005 20:06:23 +0000

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... Read more...

Two Computers Stolen with Motorola Staff Data

Mon, 13 Jun 2005 14:27:24 +0000

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... Read more...

100,000 Students' Details Stolen in Laptop Theft

Tue, 29 Mar 2005 10:31:39 +0000

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... Read more...

MPAA tool will finger stolen films

Thu, 18 Nov 2004 15:35:53 +0000

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... Read more...

Google queries provide stolen credit cards

Wed, 04 Aug 2004 05:27:20 +0000

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... Read more...