• gregorum@lemm.ee
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      9 months ago

      hush! we can’t our salacious headlines ruined with pesky details and nuance!

    • Lee Duna@lemmy.nzOP
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      9 months ago

      The timing is probably just coincidence. He probably submitted a bug bounty weeks or months earlier and it just now got included in release notes

      The fraudulent orders happened a few years ago, which was alleged recently

      The indictment states that the pair attempted to fraudulently obtain over $3 million from Apple through more than two dozen fraudulent orders. For orders that did complete, they obtained around $2.5 million in electronic gift cards and more than $100,000 in “products and services.” The scheme started in December 2018 and continued until at least March 2019.