Stealing is wrong, let's start from that base. But it's one thing to get hold of a device, it's another to leverage your position as a top manager at the world's largest technology manufacturer to get hold of $ XNUMX million worth of devices. This is what an "employee" of Foxconn has done, the company where most of the devices that the Cupertino guys put on sale are assembled. But It is not going to come for free, as this top Foxconn executive is facing a ten-year prison sentence in China.
To be more exact, the "employee" in question managed to get out of the Foxconn plants, taking advantage of his position as a top executive, nothing more and nothing less than 5.700 Apple iPhone devices (based on AsiaOne).
The Taiwanese executive, familiarly identified as Tsai, worked in the testing department and led eight employees at the Foxconn factory south of the Chinese city of Shenzhen, all of whom were "trained" to get hold of hundreds of iPhones. 5 and iPhone 5s.
The security measures in Foxconn are conspicuous by their absence lately, and it is that all the secrets have been coming out of there for years, in fact, we are knowing too much in advance the models that the Cupertino company will later present. Nevertheless, far from breaking ties, the union between Apple and Foxconn is getting stronger, to such an extent that it will probably become your provider of OLED displays for future iOS devices.
The details of the event came to light after an internal audit, which resulted in the consequent complaint to the police and the imprisonment of the company executive, for which the judge has ruled no less than ten years of prison confinement.