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$6.6 Million Worth of Apple Products Stolen on M1 Highway in the UK
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People are assuming the stolen Apple products require activation.
Chances are, the thieves targeted things that don't require activation, like pallets of $249 AirPods Pro. Or HomePod. Or Pro Display XDR.
See even the thieves things the M1 is too good not to steal.
Seriously though, shame for all those that were waiting on devices that were in that truck.
But the way Apple works I am sure these devices cannot be used without the users/unsuspecting purchasers being identified. Most of them are not going to use fake details when they fire them up.
All the Airpods and other equipment that does not require that information is something else but I wonder if Apple could still track things like stolen APP or even something like an XDR monitor if connected to a device that could transmit the serial?
Seriously though, shame for all those that were waiting on devices that were in that truck.
But the way Apple works I am sure these devices cannot be used without the users/unsuspecting purchasers being identified. Most of them are not going to use fake details when they fire them up.
All the Airpods and other equipment that does not require that information is something else but I wonder if Apple could still track things like stolen APP or even something like an XDR monitor if connected to a device that could transmit the serial?
That's quite a bit to move so quickly. Well orchestrated indeed. Wonder what they can do with much of it assuming they're Apple devices as activating a new device - especially with tracked serial numbers - wouldn't do much good in the black market unless there are methods to bypass the system.
So the driver has just gotten out to take a piss meaning the doors are unlocked and you are halfway though eating your sandwich, then somebody opens the door of the cab and point a shotgun at you, are you really going to try and reach for a panic button? And even if you do press it the robber can still shoot you.
Freaking genius, just genius i say!
They’re not going to use 6.6 million worth of products just themselves. They’ll sell them to unsuspecting people.
I know people think that they will just sell a whole load of this stuff to unsuspecting customers but I don't think it's as simple as that. Thats alot of product to sell so they will probably sell it on to someone to shift it all. How do you move so much product with identifiable serial numbers? to whom? where? Apple will be looking for this stuff. Even AirPods have ID's / serial numbers etc.. that talk back to a server somehow.
There probably isn't even a usb cable that Apple sell that won't end up on a system report back to apple somehow.
Apple will be looking for their stuff now (I'm sure the insurance companies didn't want to pay out £6m) so tracing a couple of devices will end up leading them to whole lot.
Plus, if they did only steal "unidentifiable" items in that truck (I doubt it) then its an inside job as how would anyone know what was in that truck? So that's another line of investigation.
I don't think many people try to steal stuff like this because its just dumb really. You might as well sell drugs. You can make far more money, far more easily than robberies. The sentences for thefts like these are crazy as well. Massive waste of time.
The more I think about it, you couldn't even ship them outside the EU, way too identifiable! Finally, apple stuff is quite controlled in terms of where it is sold so it sounds even more silly really.
There probably isn't even a usb cable that Apple sell that won't end up on a system report back to apple somehow.
Apple will be looking for their stuff now (I'm sure the insurance companies didn't want to pay out £6m) so tracing a couple of devices will end up leading them to whole lot.
Plus, if they did only steal "unidentifiable" items in that truck (I doubt it) then its an inside job as how would anyone know what was in that truck? So that's another line of investigation.
I don't think many people try to steal stuff like this because its just dumb really. You might as well sell drugs. You can make far more money, far more easily than robberies. The sentences for thefts like these are crazy as well. Massive waste of time.
The more I think about it, you couldn't even ship them outside the EU, way too identifiable! Finally, apple stuff is quite controlled in terms of where it is sold so it sounds even more silly really.
Yeah if they were dumb about it and tried to dump everything at once. Not hard to imagine distributing to multiple people or through multiple accounts. There are likely around 3500 products they’d need to get rid of.
Maybe they would though, criminals are dumb, they did just steal a bunch of items that can be tracked via serial numbers.
