MobileMe finds stolen iPhone

Posted on 18 Dec 2008 at 10:19

A thief who stole an iPhone was caught after contacts he added to the device were synced to the owner’s MobileMe account.

TUAW reader Rob recounts that his iPhone was pinched while he was at the dry cleaners. But the thief failed to wipe the device, using it as it was to take advantage of Rob’s contract.

Meanwhile Rob purchased a new phone, only to find that strange new contacts began appearing in the Address Book. It transpired that the thief was adding these to the stolen iPhone, apparently unaware that they would be synced to Rob’s MobileMe account.

“It didn't take long for me to realise that MobileMe was leading me right to the thief!,” Rob told TUAW, which picks up the story.

“Rob made quick work of wrangling a name and phone number from the provided contacts, supplying the police with everything they needed to get Rob his phone back. By the end of the night, he had his original iPhone in his possession,” says the website’s Brett Tepstra.

Rob is currently auctioning the restored phone on Ebay.

Author: Simon Aughton

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