"As such, we strongly advised him to return the hard drive to Apple, and even offered to help facilitate the safe return of the disk if he was nervous about the exchange. We have not heard from him since."

Apple is seemingly having a tough time holding onto its hardware at the moment, with an going missing from a Mexican restaurant in San Francisco (though there are some as to the authenticity of these claims) and a prototype on the loose.

in CSOonline's Data Protection section.