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Masked and armed robbers used the New Year's Eve revelry as cover to rob the flagship Apple store in Paris.

A Kenyan chief in a town far from the bustling capital foiled a predawn robbery recently using Twitter, highlighting the far-reaching effects of social media in areas that don't have access to the Internet.

Advice for potential bank robbers: don't create a trail of posts bragging about your successful $62,000 robbery on Facebook. Unfortunately this tip would've actually been helpful for four suspected of robbing the International Bank of Commerce in Houston, Texas.

A group of New Hampshire men have been robbing houses based on the status updates of their victims on Facebook.

Philippine police tracked down a suspect in a series of grisly robberies and killings with the help of his Facebook account, officials said Tuesday. Mark Dizon, a 28-year-old computer technician, did not resist when arrested Tuesday while talking with his father in a public square in northern San Fernando city, police Senior Superintendent Danilo Bautista said.

House thieves have been given a leg-up by a new Web site that allows people to see whether or not you are at home -- thanks to information you're probably already posting online.

The so-called "Scarecrow Bandits" were a highly sophisticated band of bank robbers, but their reliance on high-tech gadgetry is part of what brought them down, a federal prosecutor said this morning.