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« on: December 06, 2021, 04:05:22 pm »

AirTags are being used to steal cars

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AirTags are being used to steal cars.
The York Regional Police have worked on five cases since September where an AirTag was involved.


Apple still has a lot of work to do with safety and privacy here.

Apple's AirTags are being used by car thieves to track down high-end vehicles.

In a new report released by the York Regional Police in Ontario, Canada, the department is warning about a new method that car thieves are using to identify the vehicles they want to steal: AirTags. According to the report, the suspects leave an AirTag on a vehicle, track it to a residence, and then steal it from the victim's driveway.


  Since September 2021, officers have investigated five incidents where suspects have placed small tracking devices on high-end vehicles so they can later locate and steal them. Brand name 'air tags' are placed in out-of-sight areas of the target vehicles when they are parked in public places like malls or parking lots. Thieves then track the targe...

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