All the action really is happening in Brazil. While the World Cup has been going on, an ambitious heist has occurred in Campinas, Brazil, specifically at Samsung‘s Campinas factory, where thieves have allegedly taken around 40,000 laptops, phones, and tablets that are estimated to be worth $36 million. Samsung has since downplayed the cost of the goods stolen, but that doesn’t take away from the magnitude of the heist itself.
In fact, so impressive was the heist that it is suspected that the thieves had inside help within the factory. It is alleged that the thieves hijacked a company shuttle to get inside the complex, where they then took hostages and took their phone batteries so they could not call for help. Furthermore, stealing that number of devices could not have been so efficient without precise knowledge of exactly where those things were within the complex. That, or they might have been Ocean’s Eleven. Either way, it’s unlikely that the devices will ever be returned, and it’s unclear if Samsung is going to investigate their staff to uncover potential insiders.
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