i once was on amtrak, the thief circulated in the dark when people were sleeping feeling up their overheads etc and stealing devices including phones, she passed them to a tech guy who had a sleeper car, i kept watching them as the amtrak security guard knew her by name and refused to arrest her even when she was trying to hand him the stolen phone belonging to a military kid who asked my help, ok so i stayed on board with them, watching , she is a convict just out of prison and an air force colonel daughter, he was a brainiac. he had a laptop connected to a box which was wiping out and displaying/ storing everything from the devices onto his computer.
answer- there is a purchasable piece of equipment out there which thieves are using, it gives them access to absolutely everything you have ever done bank purchases passwords photos signatures everything where you live i mean everything, so they score when they make fake id and fake bank cards and use your credit info also, and they wipe the device and resell it.
oh and once again, they ride amtrak and the amtrak security KNOWS it, and there you go- how much do they make on the payroll of these criminals... enough to do it.
but that, pablo, is how all devices, are emptied onto a computer and used for other crimes, as well as the device getting wiped and resold.
