Did you hear the one about “a man walked into the Genius Bar?” Apparently, he brought his Mac in for repairs and was sent home with a fixed machine — and a hard drive containing internal, confidential, Apple files.
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According to Cult of Mac, the man took his Mac into the Stamford, Connecticut Genius Bar for a look and had to leave it a few days for repairs. When he returned to pick up his machine, he learned that as part of the repair they had to replace the hard drive. They gave him his machine back, along with a hard drive, which he assumed was his old, faulty drive.
However, when he plugged that drive into a USB enclosure, he discovered that it was not his old disk, but a hard drive the store had been using for Time Machine backups. On it was secret information going back to 2009 including internal documents, training videos, manuals, Apple store work checklists, time schedules, product layouts, store meetings, and business structure.
The man contacted Cult of Mac and offered to sell them the hard drive, and included a few screenshots to prove he had the information. As per their policy, Cult of Mac declined and the tipster hasn’t been heard from since.