This time from GNR coastal control unit
A second (bizarre) theft of computers carrying potentially sensitive data has been reported – this time from the building housing IT/ transmissions of the GNR’s Unit of Coastal Control (UCC/ GNR) in Lisbon.
Following on from the strange story of a ‘random theft’ of government computers last month, this latest incident is being credited to “a man who fled with at least six computers”.
The crime occurred in the early hours of Monday, September 16.
According to Correio da Manhã, the building also functions as the base for the GNR’s aerial vigilance department, where drones are stored.
“The thief broke through an armoured door of the building to effect his assault”, writes the paper, adding that the door “still has not been substituted. For this reason, the UCC/ GNR commander, major-general Jorge Bolas, has ordered agents to remain on permanent duty, drafting personnel in from Setúbal, to watch the building”.
The paper adds that it has not received replies to its questions to the GNR about the theft. In other words, it is unclear what may have been on the stolen laptops, or indeed from which departments they were taken.
The first theft, from the General Secretariat of the Ministry of Internal Administration, was painted to have been a random chancing by a homeless drug addict (on the run from a French prison).
The man was described as having quickly sold the laptops that he stole “to a Senegalese man” – and no word of their discovery (nor what may have been on them) has since made it to the public space.
What has been reported is that a parliamentary commission has approved the ‘hearing’ of the minister for internal administration ‘behind closed doors’.
