iPhone Savior: Belgian Crooks Pull Off Biggest iPhone Heist Ever

A savvy group of high-tech gangsters managed to pull off the largest iPhone heist to date over the weekend from a huge storage facility in Willebroek, a town in the Belgian province of Antwerp. The burglars scaled the warehouse using a fire ladder, cut a hole in the roof and then fled the scene giggling like school girls with 3,000 to 4,000 shiny new iPhone devices totaling 2 million euros ($3 million).

Police indicated that the well informed crooks cut a hole in the roof of the CEVA Logistics warehouse directly above the area where the iPhones were been stored. Investigators are looking into the possibility of an inside job. The iPhone payload was earmarked for delivery to Apple's exclusive Belgian carrier Mobistar, before smartphone thieves dropped a deuce on the party.

Mobistar spokesperson Patti Verdoodt offered her own insightful consolation on the iPhone disaster; "We have the serial numbers of the stolen iPhones block[ed] anyway so they cannot be used," But what Verdoot failed to mention is that Belgium is one of only three countries in Europe authorized to sell iPhones without a SIM-lock. Making the phones fair game for use with other wireless carriers. So much for that consolation.

"People who want to buy an iPhone, is best done in an approved outlet and not on the street or on the black market." Verdoot told Dutch press De Standard. Thanks for that Patti. We'll keep your sound advice in mind while grabbing those new iPhones on the cheap from some guy in a black trench coat.

Police currently have no trace of the thieves other than a huge hole in the CEVA Logistics roof that serves as a harsh reminder that I'm in your warehouse stealing your iPhones.

[Brainstorm Tech]