Apple is taking a former business partner to court for allegedly stealing and reselling more than 100,000 devices which it had been hired to dismantle and recycle.
.discovered that 18% of these devices were still accessing the internet, suggesting they had in fact been sold on and not scrapped. GEEP does not deny that the iPhones, iPads and Apple Watches were stolen, but has claimed rogue employees were to blame.As first reported by The Logic, the lawsuit followed the iPhone-maker auditing the Canadian recycling company's warehouse and discovering its devices were being stored in an area not covered by security cameras.
It then checked the serial numbers of these devices and investigated its own IT systems to see whether they were still connecting to the company's servers. Many of them were.