- A San Francisco man was arrested and charged with defrauding Apple.
- He is accused of hacking into an Apple system to place fraudulent orders.
- Two weeks after he was arrested, Apple despatched out a safety replace acknowledging him for his “help.”
A San Francisco man was charged with defrauding Apple out of about $2.5 million value of reward playing cards and merchandise.
The person, Noah Roskin-Frazee, was acknowledged in a January 22 safety replace from Apple despatched about two weeks after his arrest, in accordance with a report from CourtWatch and 404 Media, which first reported on Roskin-Frazee’s unsealed indictment.
It is unclear why Roskin-Frazee was thanked within the Apple replace, and the corporate didn’t reply to a request for remark from Enterprise Insider. Nevertheless, the 404 Media and CourtWatch report notes that Roskin-Frazee, a safety researcher, had reported points to the tech big prior to now.
Within the indictment filed in December 2023, the US Legal professional in San Francisco charged Roskin-Frazee and a co-defendant with counts together with fraud and deliberately damaging a protected laptop.
Prosecutors allege within the indictment a sophisticated scheme that concerned Roskin-Frazee and the co-defendant utilizing a password reset operate to interrupt into the account of an worker who labored with Apple prospects after which enhancing orders for issues like reward playing cards and gadgets. In some circumstances, they edited the orders to return out to $0, or had reward playing cards despatched to faux addresses, which they then resold, per the indictment.
They walked away with about $2.5 million in merchandise, providers, and reward playing cards, in accordance with the indictment.
Although Apple is not named explicitly within the indictment, CourtWatch and 404 Media be aware that the indictment says the corporate is headquartered in Cupertino, California, and “developed, manufactured, licensed, supported and offered laptop software program, shopper electronics, private computer systems, and providers.”
Roskin-Frazee’s attorneys didn’t reply to a request for remark from Enterprise Insider.
