Stolen Computer Search

[InfoSec News <isn () c4i org>]

Forwarded from: William Knowles <wk () c4i org>

http://abclocal.go.com/wpvi/news/101403_nw_computertheft.html

October 14, 2003

The search goes on for a stolen laptop computer, a computer that
contains sensitive information about security at all the commercial
airports in the U.S. It happened during an airport security training
seminar at the Embassy Suites near Philadelphia International.

Police and the FBI have not located that computer nor have they made 
any arrests. I am told it contains sensitive information about 
security at the nation's 429 airports. A source tells Action News they 
do not believe this was the job of a professional who knew what was on 
the computer, but someone who thought they might be able to get some 
good cash for it at a pawnshop. Police and FBI agents swarmed into the 
Embassy Suites hotel on Bartram Avenue near the airport shortly after 
the theft. Lockheed Martin under contract to the Transportation 
Security Administration was conducting a training seminar for 25 new 
screeners hired at Philadelphia International. The instructor was 
using a laptop computer to project security procedures onto a large 
projection screen. Around noon the group broke for lunch leaving the 
computer behind. 

FBI agents and police rounded up about 50 hotel employees, locked them 
up in a conference room as they tried to pin down the person who stole 
the Transportation Security Administration computer. The employees 
contacted their union. 

Kevin Smith/H.E.R.E. LOCAL 274: 

"I got a call at 6:30 from the members."
"And what did they say?"

Kevin Smith/H.E.R.E. LOCAL 274: 

"That they were being restrained, held prisoner."

Union business agent Kevin Smith was hopping mad that his members were 
being held for such a long period of time, especially those who had 
kids they were not able to pickup from daycare. 

If there's a piece of equipment missing, that's one piece of 
equipment, however they are restraining 50 people, that means they 
have 49 innocent people."

Meantime questions were raised as to why a computer with sensitive 
information about security at the nation's airport would be left 
behind at a conference during a lunch break. A TSA spokesman says the 
instructor had locked the door but didn't realize there was a back 
door that had been left unlocked. Authorities seem to think whoever 
took it works in the hotel. 

 

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