" … police discovered two Apple laptops in the teen’s home with serial numbers matching the devices that had accessed Apple’s network" I wonder what that means

" … police discovered two Apple laptops in the teen’s home with serial numbers matching the devices that had accessed Apple’s network" I wonder what that means? _Probably_ just sloppy reporting or police-work, but I wonder if there's some mechanism by which your Apple devices reveal their serial numbers to Apple while "illegally accessing a network"? Perhaps software update ran while he was skript-kiddie-ing them?