That Time I Worked With a Laptop Thief
An IT contractor stole company MacBooks for over a year before inventory checks and Apple records exposed him.
A first-person account describes an IT contractor who stole and resold company laptops for more than a year. After 15 new MacBooks were ordered, six were missing; he claimed five had dead batteries and created Apple repair cases under his personal account, with empty return boxes sent to his home. Two supposed replacements arrived with inkjet FedEx labels spoofed to look like Apple's Fifth Avenue store, were not enrolled in Apple Business Manager, and were registered to him rather than the company. Apple said it does not ship repairs from retail stores.
- An IT contractor allegedly resold company MacBooks for over a year.
- Six of 15 newly ordered MacBooks were missing from inventory.
- Repair cases were opened on his personal Apple account.
- Two replacements were registered to him, not the company MDM.
- Spoofed FedEx labels and home-bound repair boxes broke his story.
- ATT&CK
- T1036 Masquerading
- Products
- MacBookApple Business Manager
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9 min read at blog.pipetogrep.orgI used to worked at a place where they had an IT contractor that was stealing laptops and reselling them for over a year. This post is the story of how he got caught. Real names of people and companies will not be used, but the tale and screenshots (with redactions) are all true.
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