Day: December 26, 2023

Written by FinCrime

An iPhone Thief Explains How He Steals Your Passcode and Bank Account

Reported by Joanna Stern Thieves are stealing iPhones, passcodes and thousands of dollars from their victims’ bank accounts. WSJ’s Joanna Stern sat down with a convicted thief in a high-security prison to find how—and how you can protect yourself. Watch full video: https://www.wsj.com/video/series/joanna-stern-personal-technology/an-iphone-thief-explains-how-he-steals-your-passcode-and-bank-account/C37B4009-E548-4459-8D0A-22B7400C3FEA

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No Oversight: Inside a Boom-Time Start-Up Fraud and Its Unraveling

Reported by Erin Griffith After Manish Lachwani founded the Silicon Valley software start-up HeadSpin in 2015, he inflated the company’s revenue numbers by nearly fourfold and falsely claimed that firms including Apple and American Express were customers. He showed a profit where there were losses. He used HeadSpin’s cash to make risky trades on tech stocks. And […]