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<p><span class="byline">By Jack Clark, ZDNet UK, <a href="http://www.zdnet.co.uk/2010/07/14/">14 July, 2010 13:46</a></span> <br />
<a href="http://www.zdnet.co.uk/2010/07/14/"><em>Original Appearance: Thousands of laptops stolen from US military contractor.</em></a></p>
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<h1><strong>Over 3,000 laptops were stolen from a military contractor for the US Special Operations Command in March, according to a newspaper report.</strong></h1>
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<p>A crew of thieves stole the equipment from iGov Technologies over nine hours on 8 March. The company helps develop the Special Operations Command's (SOCOM) <a title="TACLAN overview - iGov" href="http://www.igov.com/customers/solutions-in-action/taclan/socom-special-operations-forces-sof-taclan-overview">tactical local area network (TACLAN).</a> It won a $300m (&pound;196m) contract to develop the technology in 2005 and in February&nbsp;2010 the contract maximum was increased to $450m, according to military news service <a title="iGov contract supports SOCOM's TACLAN - Defense Industry Daily" href="http://www.defenseindustrydaily.com/300m-5year-contract-covers-socom-tactical-lans-01309/">Defense Industry Daily</a>.</p>
<p>Details of the theft emerged when the <i>St Petersburg Times</i>, a Florida-based newspaper, found information about the crime within a search warrant filed in Hillsborough County Circuit Court, which sought the phone records for one of the suspects in the heist.</p>
<p>The investigation led the FBI and Miami-Dade police department to a warehouse in Miami that had been used to store the stolen property, where 1,911 items were recovered. A SOCOM spokeswoman told the <i>St Petersburg Times</i> that officials are aware of the iGov break-in, but could provide no immediate response.</p>
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