Theft Articles on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

Find my iPad turns up English rugby legend's missing tablet

by Dave Caolo (Feb 10th, 2011)

Former England rugby captain Will Carling has been reunited with his stolen iPad after tracking it down with Apple's free Find My iPhone app. The best part is that he live-tweeted his hunt for the thief. Carling noticed his iPad was missing after leaving it on a train. He then used Find My iPhone ...

Organized ring charged with using fake credit cards at Apple Stores

by Mike Schramm (Feb 2nd, 2011)

Prosecutors in New York City have charged 27 people with organizing and running a ring of credit card fraud that was used to rip off Apple Stores around the United States. The thieves were able to buy over $1 million of Apple gear by obtaining stolen credit card numbers and manufacturing IDs and ...

Feds charge two in June 2010 iPad 3G hacking

by Mike Schramm (Jan 18th, 2011)

Two men have been charged with stealing the email addresses and personal data of over 120,000 iPad users last year. A 26-year-old from San Francisco and a 25-year-old from Fayetteville, Arkansas were charged with hacking into AT&T's servers and stealing the data, scraped from AT&T's website. ...

Caught on camera: Two thieves grab iPads and run

by Steven Sande (Jan 13th, 2011)

Everybody loves iPads, ... even thieves. At about 2:46 PM CT yesterday afternoon, security cameras and employees at Chicago-based MacSpecialist watched as two warmly-dressed thieves first "tried out" iPads at a stand-up kiosk, then ran out the door with them. According to MacSpecialist COO (and ...

Police hunt down stolen iPhone in chopper

by Kelly Hodgkins (Dec 16th, 2010)

Police in Australia take iPhone theft seriously; so seriously, they will not hesitate to employ the use of a helicopter to nab a thief who has made off with one of Apple's prized mobile devices. The story begins in a hospital in Heidelberg, Australia where an iPhone was stolen from an unsuspecting ...

Five men rob Apple Store in Greenwich, CT

by David Quilty (Dec 14th, 2010)

Apple Store burglars have struck again, this time in Greenwich, Connecticut. Police say that at least five suspects, seen in the surveillance photo to the right, broke through the front door and helped themselves to a whole bunch of Apple products valued in the tens of thousands of dollars. The ...

Norwegian Apple reseller suffers break-in, 50 boxes stolen

by Mike Schramm (Dec 3rd, 2010)

An Apple reseller in Norway, of all places, suffered a break-in earlier this morning. According to the main local paper, Aftenposten, the thieves stole a BMW, which was then used to back into the store as seen in the wild pictures above. Once the storefront was broken open, 50 boxes were lifted ...

Thieves drive truck through Apple retailer's wall

by Mike Schramm (Nov 2nd, 2010)

We've heard of quite a few robberies at Apple Stores (and in its own twisted way, the idea makes sense -- despite the adage that 'crime doesn't pay,' laptops and iPhones are certainly easy to carry and very resellable), but this is probably the most brute force way we've seen it done. A set of ...

Another 'smash and grab' hits Portland Apple reseller

by Steven Sande (Oct 11th, 2010)

One sign of the continuing popularity of Apple's product line is the fact that some people will go to extraordinary (and illegal) measures to procure the products. That image at right? It's from a security camera video showing a full-size gray pickup truck with a diamond-plate toolbox in the back ...

Attempted iPad theft at Salt Lake City Apple Store

by Michael Rose (Aug 16th, 2010)

We don't have the whole story yet, but apparently on Saturday there was an attempted robbery at the Salt Lake City retail store -- the front window was smashed and the perpetrator tried to get away with several iPads, but as you can see in the gallery below it appears that he was taken into ...

iPhone-grabbing thief picks wrong phone at wrong time

by Michael Rose (Jul 22nd, 2010)

We love iPhone/iPad vs. unwitting criminal stories, especially ones that end happily. Across this category, though, it's hard to hold a candle to the story of Jordan Sturm, Horatio Toure, and one particular purloined iPhone. As reported by the Chronicle, Sturm was standing on the street in San ...

Thieves targeting iPads in NY Apple Store

by Dave Caolo (Jun 23rd, 2010)

Apple's products have been increasingly targeted by thieves since those now-ubiquitous white earbuds first announced, "I'm carrying an expensive Apple doohickey! Mug me!" iPhones and iPods are often too hard for ne' er-do-wells to resist, and now iPads have joined their ranks. The New York Post ...

iPad finger ripper suspect behind bars

by Michael Grothaus (Apr 27th, 2010)

It was a gruesome and sad story. After Bill Jordan picked up an iPad for a friend from the Cherry Creek Shopping Center Apple Store in Colorado, he was assaulted by two men who stole the iPad -- and in the process damaged his pinky finger so badly that part of it had to be removed. Now, the ...

Orbicule releases Undercover 4

by Michael Grothaus (Apr 14th, 2010)

Orbicule has released Undercover 4 and thieves should be very afraid. Undercover is theft-recovery software for Mac OS X that's been around for the last four years. The software allows users to grab screen shots of the thief using their computer via the Mac's built-in iSight camera and will also ...

New Hampshire man is victim of first recorded iPad theft

by Michael Rose (Apr 4th, 2010)

Someone has to be first, I suppose. Straight from the police iBlotter in Manchester, NH, the Union Leader reports that a broad-daylight iPad theft was perpetrated in the parking lot of a Best Buy on South Willow Street. Mohamed Aboutaleb of Dover had just bought his new iPad in the store ...