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Thames Water Adding “SmartWater” Forensic Tags to its Valuable Infrastructure
In an attempt to lessen the £1.2m the company loses each year from thieves nicking lumps of its pipework, cabling, roofing and gratings, Thames Water is starting to tag its hardware, so those who nick...
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Everything You Need to Survive Losing Your Laptop
So I lost some laptops. Three. Three laptops. I got the last one back, but even if I hadn't, I've learned enough about the hell that that puts you through to have some advice if you end up unexpectedly...
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Bad Apple Store Genius Stole Over £12,000′s Worth of iPhones
The Apple Store in Charlotte's Northlake Mall is presumably like any other: clean, crisp, tidy. But underneath the pristine veneer, an unidentified employee spent nearly six weeks this winter stealing...
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The Man Who Stole Pinterest
Karl Jo Seilern is the CEO of Pinspire (right), a 99% ripoff of mysteriously super-popular Pinterest (left). They look the same, sound the same, are the same; only one of them is a German clone! So we...
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People Need Telling Not to Give Their Phone Numbers to Random Web Sites
PhonepayPlus, the UK body tasked with regulating the often shady world of premium text messaging, has warned of the dangers of putting your mobile number into web sites that promise you amazing free...
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Idiot Steals Petrol from Cop Car, Posts Picture on Facebook, Goes Directly to...
This is Michael Baker. Michael is 20 years old, lives in Kentucky, and likes The Bucket List on Facebook. I know these things because Michael has not activated his Facebook privacy settings, which is...
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Multimillionaire Software Exec Arrested in LEGO-Thieving Bar-Code Scam
Ah, power. You give a person too much and they will abuse it. Such is the case with Thomas Langenbach, a 47-year-old VP at Palo Alto-based software company SAP Labs, who has been arrested for the...
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Six Brits Arrested in Global Credit Card Fraud Crackdown, Thanks to Fake...
24 people from 13 countries around the world have been arrested, following an investigation into the buying and selling of stolen credit card details. The UK contributed six criminals to the haul. The...
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19-Year-Old Faces Up to 15 Years In Prison Over RuneScape Crime
Over the pond in the ‘States, a RuneScape robbery has occurred, leaving a 19-year-old kid facing up to 15 years in prison for second-degree robbery and grand larceny over an alleged theft over...
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US Airport Employee Caught Nicking iPad, Tracked Home and Busted
Security footage broadcast by US network ABC News shows exactly what you might expect to happen to unattended laptops and iPads left lying about in airports — they get bagsied by employees and taken...
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This Is How Thieves Will Snatch Your Phone On the Train
You already know that smartphone theft is becoming super common. This is exactly how it happens. This robbery happened on a subway in Hungary a few days ago. Apparently the thief there was being filmed...
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UPS Guy Steals an iPad Mini That FedEx Had Just Delivered
Vimeo user alversae has posted a video which shows a UPS delivery guy wander up to the front of his house and steal his daughter’s Christmas present — an iPad mini — right off the porch where it had...
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Jacko Hackers Spared Jail Over Sony Music Hack
Two British men have been given suspended six month jail terms for admitting their piracy crimes, which involved hacking into Sony’s servers and stealing unreleased tracks from Michael Jackson and...
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MP Accuses HMV of Theft Over Gift Voucher Sales
A Tory MP and legal expert has accused HMV of literally stealing money from customers over the past few weeks, claiming that management’s decision to continue selling gift vouchers while the chain...
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Thieves Steal Entire Bridge, The Whole Bridge, For Scrap Metal
The days of casually crossing a creek are over if you live in the Gölçük district of Kocaeli province in western Turkey. Which maybe you don’t. But the point is that someone stole a 22-tonne,...
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Drunk Teen Sold Stolen Safari Park Tortoise for £30
The dangers of drinking and visiting safari parks have been illustrated by young Adam Steff, who stole a giant tortoise from Woburn Safari Park. You know, for a laugh. Perhaps realising he wasn’t...
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Stolen UK Laptop Is Sending Its Owner Secret Photos From Its New Home in Iran
Dom Del Torto is an animator currently living in the UK. Dom Del Torto’s laptop is a MacBook Pro currently living 3,000 miles away in Iran. This was not a planned separation. In fact, Del Torto would...
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Hackers Stole £30 Million In Cash From ATMs Around the Globe
Waving a gun around at a bank is so 10 years ago. With a little tech on their side, a squad of bank robbers were able to snag a cool £30 million in cash with nothing but some hacks and few old key...
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How on Earth are 25,000 People in the UK Stealing Electricity?
According to power industry regulator Ofgem, some 25,000 people every year are caught trying to steal electricity, with around one third of those using their stolen electricity to help power illegal...
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Idiot iPhone Thief Leaves His Samsung Galaxy at the Scene, Gets Caught
Irony’s a bitch. Alleged iPhone thief Travis Montgomery Snyder knows first hand. His smash-and-grab plot to liberate a whole slew of iPhones from a US phone seller went of mostly without a hitch....
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