{"id":1011270,"date":"2026-06-01T10:14:27","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T04:44:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1011270"},"modified":"2026-06-01T10:40:04","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T05:10:04","slug":"mha-warns-iphone-users-of-phishing-scam-targeting-lost-stolen-devices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/06\/01\/mha-warns-iphone-users-of-phishing-scam-targeting-lost-stolen-devices\/","title":{"rendered":"MHA warns iPhone users of phishing scam targeting lost, stolen devices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: The Indian Cyber Crime Coordination Centre (I4C), operating under the Union Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA), has issued a nationwide advisory warning iPhone users about a sophisticated cyber fraud campaign that exploits devices reported lost or stolen. <\/p>\n<p>The alert, issued by the National Cybercrime Threat Analytics Unit (NCTAU), a specialised wing of the I4C, describes the scam as a \u201chybrid cybercrime\u201d that combines physical theft with advanced phishing techniques to gain unauthorised access to victims\u2019 iCloud accounts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: The Indian Cyber Crime Coordination Centre (I4C), operating under the Union Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA), has issued a nationwide advisory warning iPhone users about a sophisticated cyber fraud campaign that exploits devices reported lost or stolen. The alert, issued by the National Cybercrime Threat Analytics Unit (NCTAU), a specialised wing of the I4C, describes the scam as a \u201chybrid cybercrime\u201d that combines physical theft with advanced phishing techniques to gain unauthorised access to victims\u2019 iCloud accounts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,76,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1011270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-new-indian-express","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1011270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1011270"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1011270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1011314,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1011270\/revisions\/1011314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1011270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1011270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1011270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}