Security News > 2010 > July > Thieves swipe thousands of laptops from Special Ops contractor in Hillsborough
http://www.tampabay.com/news/publicsafety/crime/thieves-swipe-thousands-of-laptops-from-special-ops-contractor-in/1108521 By Dong-Phuong Nguyen Times Staff Writer St. Petersburg Times July 13, 2010 TAMPA -- The thieves hit on a weekend when no one was around. The target: a military contractor for the super secret Special Operations Command, the elite commandos who help coordinate the war on terror. The intruders entered through the roof, gaining access to iGov Technologies, which occupies suite 110 in the beige corporate center at 9211 Palm River Road. For the next nine hours, they loaded up more than 3,000 laptop computers and other equipment into two waiting semitrailer trucks . Those details came to light only recently, when a Hillsborough County sheriff's detective filed a search warrant in Hillsborough County Circuit Court seeking phone records for one of the suspects. [...] _________________________________________________________________ Attend Black Hat USA 2010, hosted at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, Nevada July 24-29th, offering over 60 training sessions and 11 tracks of Briefings from security industry elite. To sign up visit http://www.blackhat.com