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Security Researcher Allegedly Exploited Internal Apple Tool to Steal Millions
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Stealing from Apple should not be a crime, as long as Apple steals from its customers. Just look at how Apple handles the new EU rules about third party app stores.
Well, do you lose sleep over every news you comment about? 😂
It's funny, some people here almost seem to take personal offence that a crime was committed against Apple specifically.
Of course crimes, and specifically these types of crimes are bad. But who cares... With a population of 7bn people it's bound to be wide spread, and affect apple and most large institutions, if just ~0.001% of the population has an inclination to do so.
Of course crimes, and specifically these types of crimes are bad. But who cares... With a population of 7bn people it's bound to be wide spread, and affect apple and most large institutions, if just ~0.001% of the population has an inclination to do so.
Yeah they seem technically gifted. But business wise was rather stupid. It's common to do a business analysis of heavily discounted items (and 0-value-items), of course this would be noticed. Maybe they hoped to get away with it through obscuring their identity via foreign banks etc.
The plot thickens. The implication of an "inside job" and a major conspiracy is very real. Somebody has "decided" to look the "other way" instead of monitoring very closely.
Somebody would have noticed, they just didn't care enough to act on it or they was in on it.
Apple's security has always been patched once they discover people exploiting their system. I won't even go into what I used to do with about 6 iPhones and about 10 refillable debit cards with $2 on each. Now they have a limit on how many accounts can be created on an Apple device as well as how often you can switch accounts to make purchases on an Apple device, I think it's once every 90 days now. They also no longer allow most refillable debit cards to be used in the App Store. Those restrictions that Apple has in place are because of people exploiting the system.
Bill Gates lied on record to IBM about what later would be DOS to get the exclusive OEM Operating System license for IBM x86 (80286 Intel inside) platform worldwide back when OEMs didn’t exist, and after signing a legally binding contract walked out with Paul Allen and contacted an unsuspecting Puget Sound Power engineer who wrote said OS bought for $50k and from there Microsoft became a multi trillion dollar conglomerate.
Free phone calls vs SEC fraud and federal contact fraud.
The story said "customer support." I presumed (perhaps mistakenly) that was in reference to call-center and online-chat services provided to retail customers. Does Deloitte handle that kind of support?
You do know that Apple does not see your password ? Most secure systems make seeing the password impossible. Passwords can be changed or reset (as was done in this case) but no one can see the password.
Besides being 100% wrong on that...
Why are you an Apple customer if you feel that way? I have to assume you are one if you frequent an Apple related website.
About the security content of macOS Sonoma 14.2 - Apple Support
This document describes the security content of macOS Sonoma 14.2.
Kinda wild they credited him in a recent patch note!
They were probably just building an iron-clad case against him, let’s be real.
Yeah plus they may not have bothered if he stopped at a low amount but greed always gets these guys in trouble