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Update: DOT says suspects in custody, no ID theft from stolen laptops


From: lyger <lyger () attrition org>
Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2006 17:23:31 -0500 (EST)


http://www.jacksonville.com/apnews/stories/112106/D8LHN9M00.shtml

MIAMI - Two suspects have been arrested in the July theft of a U.S. 
government laptop computer containing sensitive information about more 
than 130,000 people and authorities said Tuesday it appears that no data 
breaches have occurred.

The U.S. Department of Transportation's Office of Inspector General said 
the suspects were arrested during a surveillance operation with the FBI 
and local police of a Miami-area Latin American Grill restaurant parking 
lot where the original DOT laptop was stolen from a government agent's 
vehicle on July 27.

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