Tennessee family visiting Disney World says Apple AirTag used to track them

A Tennessee household is claiming that an Apple AirTag was used to trace them throughout their time at Walt Disney World.

Jennifer Gaston instructed FOX 35 Orlando that the household was headed again to their automobile on the monorail once they made the AirTag discovery, getting a notification saying that the proprietor of an AirTag gadget had been monitoring them. The Gaston household was visiting from Tennessee, in keeping with WKRN-TV.

“We had been terrified, we had been confused, harm, and scared,” mentioned Jennifer Gaston. “She actually watched it observe us from the tram all the way in which again to our car.” 

Gaston’s daughter mentioned that the gadget was monitoring them for a number of hours throughout their time on the theme park.

The household couldn’t discover the AirTag once they acquired to their automobile. They drove away and known as police.

Her daughter continued to trace the gadget’s location, and it confirmed that it was nonetheless within the parking zone.

“As she was refreshing it, it confirmed the AirTag was nonetheless in our parking spot so by some means once we had been frantically shaking out garments and dumping all the pieces out of our luggage it fell out,” Gaston mentioned.

Apple AirTags are gadgets meant to maintain monitor of private belongings within the occasion they’re misplaced, however have been utilized by criminals up to now.

Gaston mentioned that the scenario might have ended a lot worse.

“This story might have ended method in another way,” Gaston mentioned. “I’m praising God now we have the end result now we have, nevertheless it’s as a result of she was diligent and conscious of what to do.”