That’s all it took for seven thieves, both men and women, dressed in hoodies and jackets that adequately concealed their identity, to enter an Apple store in Natick, Massachusetts, in a carefully coordinated heist. They were able to disable security tethers and make off with 19 iPhones, worth about $13,000. They were caught on security video, and the entire footage was posted on the Natick, Massachusetts, Police Department’s Facebook site.
Apple’s security strategy, though, has changed. They are cutting their security tethers on the tables within the store, allowing the devices to be handled freely. Unauthorized phones leaving the store will sound an alarm and Apple will have the ability to disable the phones remotely once they leave the store’s WiFi network. It’s likely they will continue to video monitor the stores also, though the thieves at the Natick store had not been caught several months later.