Apple iPhone thieves using simple trick to take everything, report finds

iPhone thieves who spied connected a victim's passcode earlier stealing nan Apple device tin easy reset settings preventing its proprietor from accessing it. 

According to a caller study successful The Wall Street Journal, victims person reported phones stolen retired of their hands aliases astatine bars and different nationalist places, uncovering they had been locked retired of their accounts.

Bad actors pinch knowledge of a passcode are capable to easy reset nan victim's Apple ID password successful nan Settings app. 

They tin move disconnected Find my iPhone, preventing nan proprietor from search it aliases remotely wiping nan device, arsenic good arsenic region different devices from nan account. 

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A mobile telephone passcode information surface is seen successful this photograph illustration successful Warsaw, Poland, 2022. ((Photo by STR/NurPhoto via Getty Images) / Getty Images)

They tin besides group up a betterment cardinal to forestall a unfortunate from recovering nan account.

In 1 case, a thief opened an Apple Card by uncovering nan telephone owner's past 4 digits of their Social Security number successful photos. Another said she had mislaid photos of her family permanently. Most of nan victims revenge constabulary reports and 1 revenge an personality theft declare pinch nan Federal Trade Commission. 

A spokesperson for Apple told nan insubstantial that nan iPhone is nan astir unafraid user mobile instrumentality and that nan institution useful "tirelessly" to forestall caller and emerging threats. 

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FILE PHOTO: A man holds an iPhone 14 arsenic Apple Inc's caller models spell connected waste astatine an Apple shop successful Beijing, Sept. 16, 2022.  (REUTERS/Thomas Peter/File Photo / Reuters Photos)

"We sympathize pinch users who person had this acquisition and we return each attacks connected our users very seriously, nary matter really rare," nan spokesperson said, adding that nan tech elephantine believes these crimes are uncommon because they require nan theft of nan instrumentality and nan passcode. "We will proceed to beforehand nan protections to thief support personification accounts secure."

An iPhone prompting to participate nan passcode is seen connected Oct. 25, 2017.  (Jaap Arriens/NurPhoto via Getty Images / Getty Images)

So, how tin iPhone users protect themselves? 

Use Face ID aliases Touch ID successful nationalist to forestall wandering eyes and prying hands, according to nan spokesperson, and clasp hands complete nan surface erstwhile inputting a passcode. 

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Notably, successful New York, immoderate authorities person suggested Face ID arsenic a imaginable point of introduction into nan phones – particularly if a personification is incapacitated.

Switching to an alphanumeric passcode is besides an action tin beryllium done successful nan Settings app.