The Bay Area German bar that brought down Apple’s famed iPhone security

On Thursday, March 18, 2010, a drunk Apple software engineer named Gray Powell left an iPhone 4 prototype on a barstool inside Redwood City’s Gourmet Haus Staudt beer hall — a seemingly innocuous act that would eventually result in a $5,000 cash purchase of stolen property, a police raid and accusations of extortion from then CEO Steve Jobs.