http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/business/5580547.html By Michael Astor Associated Press Feb. 28, 2008 RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - When computers with information about newly discovered oil fields off Brazil's eastern coast vanished earlier this month, allegedly in transit from an offshore rig, it jolted the oil industry and alarmed even the nation's president. On Thursday, however, police said it was petty theft, not corporate espionage, that led to the disappearance of information about the Tupi fields, an oil discovery so large that Brazilian officials have said the country may join OPEC. "They didn't have the slightest idea of what they had," federal police inspector Valdinho Jacinto Caetano said. Four security guards who worked at the port of Macae, a coastal city in Rio de Janeiro state, have been arrested, and police recovered laptops and hard drives taken from state oil company Petrobras. [...] ___________________________________________________ Subscribe to InfoSec News http://www.infosecnews.org/mailman/listinfo/isn
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