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Three airport workers implicated in $470,000 RTX 5090 heist as one of the stolen cards appears online

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Connecting the dots: Remember the story last week about the Brazilian hardware distributor that revealed two pallets of Zotac GeForce RTX 5090 cards, worth around $470,000, had gone missing from São Paulo/Guarulhos airport? Two not entirely surprising developments have emerged: a card identified as one of the stolen flagships has appeared for sale online, and authorities say three employees were involved in the heist.

Oderço Distribuidora, a Brazilian importer and distributor of computer hardware, recently revealed that the two pallets of RTX 5090s imported from the US went missing at the São Paulo airport while on the way to the company.

The firm's president, Oderço Matos, said the company decided to go public after receiving no explanation from public authorities or the airport itself. There was also no video footage of the pallets...

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