Apple will have to review the security measures of their official stores. At least in New York, where thieves managed to steal more than $ 65,000 in iPhones posing as employees of two Apple Store. That is, with a blue shirt and knowing which drawer to look
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In February two men and a woman dressed in the uniform of the Genius Bar stole eight iPhones valued at more than $ 5,300 from the Apple Store on Broadway on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. The woman looked phones, one of the men was instructed to distract the actual employees and the other acted as a lookout, according to reports the New York Post.
Two weeks ago, during the last Thursday of May, three robbers stole 59 new iPhone 6s in the same store. This time, a man dressed employee approached the Genius Bar and was making a batch with the huge collection of iPhones (worth $ 44,000) while another man watching; a hidden outside the store in a bathroom, woman was in charge of receiving the lots and put them in a gym bag, ready to flee. A dependent on the Apple Store realized the ruse and called security, but it was too late. The trio fled the scene.
On Wednesday last week, another 19 iPhones were stolen from the Apple Store in SoHo with the same modus operandi . A man wearing the blue shirt with the logo of Apple overprinted entered the store, went straight to where were the iPhones and passed to an accomplice, who hid under the shirt. . They had a value of $ 16,130
the stolen phones were free, were not activated and not wearing anti-theft sensors. An employee of the Apple Store on Broadway explained that the store was a place of training, where an unknown face is not cause for alarm. It is not clear that the thieves knew this detail, but clearly knew to get around the shops. The police believe that the two robberies Upper West Side are related, but not bound with the latest in SoHo.
Apple Store uniforms used to change every few months , with the seasons, with the proximity of the parties or with the release of a product. According to 9to5Mac, Angela Ahrendts which oversees the Apple Store since 2014 decided to exchange them for a permanent color to give a more professional feel. In the image above you can see all current, valid variants since February 2015.
In any case, as we said at the beginning, Apple should review its security measures or to travel around the theme of shirts. It is not the first time someone impersonated successfully the identity of an employee of the Genius Bar, if only to record a joke YouTube:
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