Thieves Use AirTags to Steal Cars

AirTags are used to track and fly high end vehicles.

For many, AirTags are that add-on that we didn’t know we needed, but can’t part with just yet. Thanks to these and its integration with the search network, made up of millions of Apple devices around the world, it is much e asier than ever always have our most precious possessions close at hand

. However, as with the rest of location beacons, they are not without risks.

Since their arrival in the market, Apple has introduced features specifically designed to prevent the misuse of AirTags. For example, to prevent them from being used as people locators. What it seems they hadn’t anticipated was that there would be those who would use them to hunt down valuable items … other people. In that case, high-end vehicles.

According to a s tory shared by MacRumors, York Regional Police have said that some thieves are using AirTags to track someone else’s vehicles to their owner’s address

, where they conduct their flight. They just leave an AirTag in the vehicle, somewhere it’s out of the owner’s line of sight, like the exhaust, hoping it won’t be detected by the iPhone either.

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In the same video, they report that it was only possible to test the use of this method five times since September of that same year. However, the number of flights with AirTags could be considerably higher, and there seems to be no way around it. The only thing that can help is to pay a little more attention to any signal, like an alert on the iPhone or the sound of the tag when you spend too much time away from the iPhone. And, unfortunately, there will always be people who use technology for criminal purposes.

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