[ISN] Ex-spy chief Dame Stella Rimington in security scare as she loses laptop

From: InfoSec News <alerts_at_private>
Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2012 03:57:12 -0500 (CDT)
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/4349484/Ex-spy-chief-Stella-Rimington-in-security-scare-as-she-loses-her-laptop-at-Heathrow.html

By MIKE SULLIVAN
The Sun
01st June 2012

EX-MI5 boss Dame Stella Rimington lost her laptop at Heathrow in an 
embarrassing security blunder.

Dame Stella — now a best-selling author — left the computer on a luggage 
trolley from where a thief swiped it.

The laptop is understood to contain sensitive contact details of former 
spy colleagues as well as book research. Its theft has been reported to 
the Met’s SO15 Counter-Terrorism Command because of security concerns.

Dame Stella, 77, was said to be “very upset”.

A source said: “Dame Stella seems to have forgotten the tricks of her 
tradecraft since leaving MI5. CCTV shows the laptop in the upper 
compartment of her trolley as she left the terminal building at Heathrow 
last week.

“It’s possible it was taken while her back was turned.

“But it seems more likely that she left the computer on the trolley and 
somebody took it after she was driven away.”

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