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Elaborate Heist Nets Thieves 3,000 Unusable iPhones

by Terrence O'Brien on November 18, 2009 at 08:29 AM

We can only assume this is an issue with the limitations of Google Translate, otherwise we'd have to say that the description of CEVA Logistics as "annoyed" with the theft of €2 million (roughly $3 million) worth of iPhones from its warehouse in Belgium is the understatement of the year.

The firm was the victim, in what appears to be an inside job, of an elaborate heist that resulted in the loss of at least 3,000 iPhones. The phones, which retail for between €575 and €675, were snatched by thieves who scaled the wall of the warehouse with a ladder then cut a whole in the roof directly above where the iPhones were being stored.

The phones were destined for Mobistar, a cell phone operator, which must now wait for another shipment of phones from Apple and may miss out on early holiday shoppers. Fortunately the stolen phones were inventoried and their serial numbers are in the possession of Mobistar, so for all their trouble the thieves basically have several thousand, un-updateable, iPod touches. [From: De Standaard, via: Apple Insider]

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