Today we bring you the curious news of the weekend, and it is that if Apple is a company known for the large number of thefts it has suffered Both in its assembly plants and in the Apple Stores, the direct competition, Samsung, was not going to be left behind.
In this case we have heard of a Samsung worker who has been able to steal from the South Korean company more than 8.000 devices of all ranges, with which a good amount of money could have been illegally acquired thanks to the second-hand market. It seems that for this employee of the company, being in a wheelchair has not been a handicap.
This employee was hired at the South Korean firm approximately seven years ago, when they started a job integration project for people with disabilities, that is, the avid employee was hired as a result of a Samsung social collaboration program, and of course he has been able to reward him good. Dince 2010, he has been part of the terminal maintenance and repair team used by company developers with the intention of testing and improving future updates to operating systems and related software.
More than 8.500 devices of the South Korean company have been located that Mr. Lee has been able to steal between December 2014 and November 2016, which would have meant total losses of around 800.000 euros. The employee placed the devices on the seat of the wheelchair, an excuse he used to vulgarize the metal detectors and other types of security measures that the company has installed at its Suwon headquarters. The employee took advantage of the second-hand market, where he already had a certain reputation thanks to the significant number of sales, to quickly ditch the terminals and make a quick, undeclared profit.
This is how they identified the terminals
It is a detail that would go unnoticed by many, but the batteries of these devices that Lee stole from Samsung had the sign "Not for sale", a detector to know that these types of devices are not for sale in the usual way, and there are precisely few batteries found. Currently the employee has been processed and no longer works for Samsung according to The Investor.