This week was marked with a trio of noteworthy Apple leaks, something unusual for the company which is well-known for being highly secretive.

The first is our story of an Apple employee once again being separated from a prototype phone at a bar. CNET was first to report the incident and details about the attempted recovery effort that took place in July.

Second, there was the MacBook 3G prototype which briefly went up for sale on eBay last month. CNET got in touch with the owner, who told us Apple approached him about getting the machine back, which confirmed that it wasn't a counterfeit or homemade creation. The device sported an unusual antenna and SIM card slot that Apple has never shipped in one of its notebooks.

And finally, there's the man who picked up a Mac he had repaired at an Apple store in Connecticut and got back more than he bargained for. Instead of handing him a spare hard drive with a backup of his machine, a store employee reportedly gave the man a backup of the store's internal server. The man shopped it to at least one news outlet, which posted some of the photos depicting internal store layouts and sales documents that were supposedly stored on the drive.