Type of Article: MacNews News Article

Apple products especially tempting to cyberthieves

According to the Internet Crime Complaint Center, online fraud of all kinds rose 22.3 percent between 2008 and 2009. Credit-card fraud made up about 10% of the total number of complaints referred to law enforcement.

Last year, companies and individuals lost more than half a billion dollars to cyberthieves, and a “disproportionate share of that was Apple-related,” says “The Washington Post” (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/19/AR2010031905613.html?wprss=rss_technology).

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Over 190,000 iPads pre-ordered

After Apple began taking pre-orders for the iPad, 190,000 orders were placed within the first week. That rate slowed to 5,000 per day as Apple begins offering school discounts, reports “Fortune” (http://brainstormtech.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/2010/03/20/ipad-week-1-190000-pre-orders/?section=money_topstories&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+rss%2Fmoney_topstories+%28Top+Stories%29).

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