FILE - An iPhone prompting to enter the passcode is seen on Oct. 25, 2017. (Photo by Jaap Arriens/NurPhoto via Getty Images) iPhone thieves who spied on a victim's passcode before stealing the Apple device can easily reset settings preventing its owner from accessing it.
According to a new report in The Wall Street Journal, victims have reported phones stolen out of their hands or at bars and other public places, finding they had been locked out of their accounts.Bad actors with knowledge of a passcode are able to easily reset the victim's Apple ID password in the Settings app.
Here are some interesting facts about the tech giant Apple Inc., including how the company got its name and who the original three founders were.They can turn off Find my iPhone, preventing the owner from tracking it or remotely wiping the device, as well as remove other devices from the account. APPLE HAS NO-PRICK GLUCOSE MONITOR IN THE WORKSThey can also set up a recovery key to prevent a victim from recovering the account.In one case, a thief opened an Apple Card by finding the phone owner's last four digits of their Social Security number in photos.