A Foxconn manager has been indicted for the theft of 5,700 iPhones from a factory in Shenzhen, reports Asia One. The manager made around $1.56 million from selling the devices to nearby stores.
The Taiwanese manager, identified by his family name Tsai, worked in the testing department and instructed eight employees at Foxconn's factory in the southern mainland Chinese city of Shenzhen to smuggle out about thousands of iPhone5 and iPhone5s, prosecutors said. Tsai and his accomplices sold the testing phones, which were supposed to be scrapped, to stores in Shenzhen and made nearly Tw$50 million (S$2.2 million) from 2013 to 2014, said the New Taipei district prosecutor's office.
Foxconn discovered the theft after an internal audit and reported it to Taiwanese authorities. When Tsai returned to the island he was arrested and released on bail. Tsai is charged with breach of trust and could be sentenced to up to 10 years in jail.
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Bayhuy - December 3, 2016 at 3:44am
And how exactly "testing phones, which were supposed to be scrapped"
Making the scrap useful is stealing???
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Kentwang - December 2, 2016 at 9:41pm
Eight people helped him. That call team works.
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iCafe Stockholm - December 2, 2016 at 3:33pm
It says a lot about how messy Apple security is.
How could they let thousands of stolen testing units to be activated on gsm networks?
While another thousands of legit iPhones out there get "no Service" for no reason at all.
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John doe - December 2, 2016 at 5:05pm
This has nothing to do with Apple security. Apple contracts them to build the iphone.. Orders it from them and they distribute them to Apple as a finished product. The guy was Stelling from Foxconn. Its Foxconns loss. Love it how everyone criticises apple for anything.
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