Apple Store 'Genius' Gives Customer a Hard Drive Full of Internal Documents

An Apple Store 'Genius' accidentally gave a customer a hard drive full of internal Apple documents, reports CultofMac.

The site's source says he brought his Mac into the Stamford, Connecticut Apple Store for repair. When he was called a couple days later to pickup his computer the Genius also handed him a hard drive which he assumed was his old faulty drive.

When our tipster actually plugged the HDD into a USB enclosure to see if any of his old files could be salvaged, though, he says he found something very different: a complete Apple Retail Store server Time Machine backup disk containing secret internal docs dating from late 2009 to May 2011!

What's on this disk? According to our tipster, "confidential docs, internal manuals, Apple's sales technics, an Apple store work checklist, products layout, time schedules, pictures and videos of Apple corporate activities that only Apple employees can see, videos of store meetings, business structure and much much much more."

The tipster was trying to sell CultofMac these documents but they refused to purchase the drive and advised him to return it to Apple. "We have not heard from him since."

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