A crew of six Southern California men has been charged with heists targeting Nvidia and Apple shipments, where they allegedly broke into warehouses or robbed delivery trucks of their high-priced hardware contents.
If you’re going to steal, why not steal from the most profitable company on the planet, Santa Clara-based chipmaker Nvidia? That’s what six Southern California-based burglars allegedly thought, as they’re accused of a $7 million heist of Nvidia chips last December from a Burlingame warehouse that were headed for Supermicro facility in San Jose the next day. Same goes for their alleged June 3 theft of nearly $200,000 worth of Nvidia chips in Fremont. After all, Nvidia is a $5 trillion company, so maybe no one will notice a few hundred thousand or million dollars worth of merchandise missing.
Well, police and the FBI have noticed. They also noticed that the suspected same crew lifted $100,000 worth of Apple watches from Ashtabula County, Ohio this past October, and several other heists that sure seemed to show a deep understanding of the tech firms’ supply chains and delivery schedules…