If anything, Apple Inc. is known for its impenetrable security when it comes to unreleased products, especially iPhones. Despite this, Gray Powell, a 27 year old Software Engineer working for Apple managed to lose the device at a local bar. Here’s how.

“On the night of March 18, he was enjoying the fine imported ales at Gourmet Haus Staudt, a nice German beer garden in Redwood City, California. He was happy. The place was great. The beer was excellent. “I underestimated how good German beer is,” he typed into the next-generation iPhone he was testing on the field, cleverly disguised as an iPhone 3GS. It was his last Facebook update from the secret iPhone. It was the last time he ever saw the iPhone, right before he abandoned it on bar stool, leaving to go home.

It a simple, honest mistake. Something that anyone, from Steve Jobs to Jonathan Ive, could have done. Knowing how ferocious and ruthless Apple is about product leaks, those beers may have turned out to be the bitterest of his life.”

I bet Steve Jobs is pretty angry right about now.

That’s only the short version of the story, you can read the entire story, courtesy of Gizmodo, here

If you haven’t already, be sure to check out a slew of pictures of the new iPhone here

[Gizmodo]