The Largest iPhone Heist To Date

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Posted November 17, 2009 at 10:13am by iClarified

Over the weekend burglars in Belgium made off with $3 million worth of iPhones, reports Philip Elmer-DeWitt for Apple 2.0.

Someone used a fire ladder to climb to the roof of a warehouse in Willebroek, Belgium. Cut a hole in the roof and made off with 3,000 to 4,000 iPhones.

This is thought to be the largest iPhone heist to date. Authorities suspect an inside job as the hole in the roof was directly over where the stolen iPhones were stored.

The warehouse belonged to Ceva Logistics, a U.S.-owned transport company with headquarters in the Netherlands. It's likely this location was targeted because Belgium is one of the few countries that sells the iPhone SIM-unlocked.

Mobistar, Apple’s Belgian carrier said,"We have the serial numbers of the stolen iPhones block[ed] anyway so they cannot be used,"

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BRIKZ - November 17, 2009 at 11:06am

who cares if they have the serial numbers, I'm sure people can figure out a way to get them to work, or at the least even if the parts are only worth 1/4 of the value it's still a nice haul

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Bikram - November 17, 2009 at 6:01pm

if apple couldnt stop people from jailbreaking how can they....

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wezz69 - November 18, 2009 at 7:29am

when a stolen phone is blocked, its only blocked for that country, if they get on ebay and sell abroad, the iphones will work, even more so because theyr factory unlocked

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