Chinese Apple employees and contractors sold users' private data for as little as $1.50
by Cory Doctorow from on (#2SCPG)
Police in China's Zhejiang announced that they worked with colleagues in four provinces to arrest 22 suspects in a data-theft ring that raided Apple's internal networks for Iphone owners' sensitive personal information ("names, phone numbers, Apple IDs, and other data") which they sold to criminals for as little as $1.50. (more")