Five of UK’s leading mobile operators have agreed to put a cap on bills for stolen or missing mobile phones in a bid to protect consumers from incurring unexpectedly high bills. UK…
Tag: Theft
Foxconn worker held for stealing, selling iPhone 6 shells
A 40 year old Foxconn worker has been accused of stealing iPhone 6 shells and selling them over to a local electronic gadget market in Shenzhen, China, a new report claims. According…
Google & Microsoft to integrate kill switch in mobile phones following Apple’s success
Apple’s iPhone kill switch really seems like a saviour with all the significant drop in thefts!
Hackers steal records of 480,000 Harley patients; try to blackmail plastic surgery clinic
Hackers have hit a UK-based plastic surgery clinic – Harley Medical Group – and made away with personal information of over 480,000 patients and even tried to blackmail the company in a…
Telecom industry backs smartphone anti-theft initiative
Leading smartphone manufacturers and mobile carriers have come forward together to support the smartphone anti-theft voluntary commitment. The wireless association CTIA, which was earlier resistant to the idea of a mandatory kill…
Details of Morrisons’ staffers leaked online
Payroll details of thousands of Morrisons’ staffers were leaked on the web in what seems to be a rather well-timed leak on the same day as the company issued a huge profit…
Samsung’s ‘kill switch’ feature rebuffed by US carriers
Samsung proposed pre-loading smartphones with a ‘kill switch’ that would enable customers to render their stolen or lost phones inoperable, but the security feature was rejected by US carriers. According to District…