Hoatian Sun and Pengfei Xue are on their way to prison after the Justice Department said their iPhone repair scheme cost the tech giant millions in losses.

Together with their co-conspirators, the 34-year-old scammers, Haotian Sun and Pengfei Xue, squeezed Apple for about $2.5 million, as employees for years failed to detect what the DOJ described as a rather "sophisticated" scheme between 2017 and 2019.

The tech giant suffered a loss of more than $2.5 million as a result of the scam, that unfolded in the United States.