Burglars swipe laptops, iPhones from Seattle Apple Store
By Donald Melanson 
posted Aug 23rd 2007 1:04PM
posted Aug 23rd 2007 1:04PM
Apparently not willing to wait for those rumored new ultraportable MacBooks, some burglars recently broke into the Apple Store at University Village in Seattle and made off with a number of laptops that had completed servicing, along with an "unknown stock" of refurbished iPhones. According to the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, police arrived on the scene Monday morning and found a large hole in the ceiling of a technicians' room, with the entire office "in disarray." From the sound of it, it seems that the thieves may have been after more than just the laptops themselves, with at least one of the laptops reportedly "packed with personal information." No word on any leads just yet, but police say they might contact those who had their laptops stolen as part of the investigation.[Via Techmeme]
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A clever detective, just might start checkin with ebay...
maybe now apple will use their "technology" to track down those stolen ipods.
Huh, guess they read Engadget this morning and found out they can unlock the iPhones.
Bastards.
Thats pretty crazy - I was there yesterday!
I'd be worried for all the people who hadn't had their drives zero'd yet.
Hmmm... Seattle... Apple stuff stolen...
"entire office "in disarray.""
Sounds pretty normal to me.
They *might* notify the victims?
Just last week, my home town Apple Store was burglarized (in Kansas City). We were there looking at the new iMacs on Saturday and the store was burglarized Monday at 3:00 AM. Apple might need to start getting some security guards even during off hours.
Yeah back to the kansas city thing. I was in the store yesterday and they caught the guys who did it. They came in to get a powercord and brought in the computer and it still had the store desktop on it. Idiots.
Wow - talk about stupid criminals. Did they fix the store up or is it boarded up? How can anyone think about breaking into such a beautiful store?
Apparently this was the only way uncle Bill G would get himself an iphone! Imagine the story-line if he were spotted in the line on the day of its' release!
Hmm I'm guessing Steve Jobs would just give him one... if he actually wanted one.
Only the fanbois and the fashion sluts give a shit about the iPhone.
*cough*imei lock*cough*
This is exactly why there are no Microsoft stores!
Or maybe that's because the only hardware Microsoft makes are keyboards and mice
And video game consoles and MP3 players and fingerprint readers and game controllers and more.
Apple store, break in, roof, laptops, personal info ...
Sounds like somebody were inspired by the movie "Breaking and Entering."
Stupid question:
How hard is it to remove a harddisk from an Apple laptop?
I thought it is normal procedure to remove the harddisk befor giving a laptop into service...
It is at least the standart procedure with thinkpads.... (No brand war intended, this is just what I have experience with.)
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