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Twenty Apple employees in China have been arrested by cops investigating the lifting and reselling hundreds of thousands of pieces of customers' personal information. According to the South China Morning Post, police in four provinces have cuffed 22 people in total who are believed to be behind a fraud ring that made roughly $ …

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  1. Your alien overlord - fear me

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    easily reaches the *millions* surely if they sold data @ $1.50/record and made over $7 million.

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    1. Adam 52 Silver badge
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      Article does say "$1.50 to $27" so the lower end estimate would be 250,000.

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      Unless of course it's all Apple owners details globally..... And it's much bigger than implied.

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  2. adam payne

    "Apple did not respond to a request for comment on the matter."

    The PR machine is will processing all the data and will get back to you later with a nonsense piece of PR. It will probably go something like we take the security of customer information very seriously blah blah blah.

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      Apple is probably still evaluating exactly which customer records were sold, and may not want to comment until they do. Plus they don't ever respond to El Reg anyway.

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