What a mess!

[maniac]

Happend over the weekend, 11 netbooks stolen.

 

 

I consider these cabinets to be some of the most secure I've ever come across, and it still wasn't a match for a crowbar.

 

[korifugi]

Ouch, I've seen a cabinet exactly the same broken into in one of my sites - the thieving gits got away with 13 laptops in my case. Will insurance cover it?

[jamesrobinson]

some people covered with insurance? and was anything else taken, if not they must of known what they were looking for and probably where they were going....

[Dos_Box]

It's a shame that regardless of the security of the cabinates you use, all it takes is a thief with the right tools, enough time and brute force to achieve their aims

Is that dusting powder on the case?

[maniac]

It's a shame that regardless of the security of the cabinates you use, all it takes is a thief with the right tools, enough time and brute force to achieve their aims

Is that dusting powder on the case?

 

Yes the police were in this morning dusting the room for prints, not sure if they found anything of use. They chose the worst room if they wanted things of value, as they were only Stone netbooks in the cabinet worth less than £200 each to replace, and they didn't get the power packs either. In fact I'm more annoyed about the damaged cabinet which is beyond repair as it's all warped out of shape now, that's about £2000 to replace on its own.

 

Mike.

[HaleStorm]

Are you in a secondary school....we had a case not so much similar but might be worth looking in this direction, we have some "questionable" pupils who have "questionable" lifestyles and familys, one of which had there phone confiscated during the day, that night someone broke into the school compound, smashed the double glazed office window and stole the afore mentioned phone, nothing else just that one phone...when the police checked the prints they found...low and behold it was "qustionable" students older brother who had a criminal record for breaking and entering

[Pyroman]

Yes the police were in this morning dusting the room for prints, not sure if they found anything of use. They chose the worst room if they wanted things of value, as they were only Stone netbooks in the cabinet worth less than £200 each to replace, and they didn't get the power packs either. In fact I'm more annoyed about the damaged cabinet which is beyond repair as it's all warped out of shape now, that's about £2000 to replace on its own.

 

Mike.

 

Is it worth replacing if it's that easy to peel apart?

[maniac]

Is it worth replacing if it's that easy to peel apart?

 

Well we've got to replace it with something, and as I say they're still the strongest cabinets I've ever seen. We had a lapsafe one broken into at one of the schools I worked at, and that was a lot easier to get into than this one appears to have been.

[MK-2]

Is it worth replacing if it's that easy to peel apart?

 

if they want to break in, they will, no matter how much protection you put up. trust me, i worked at a school where over 6 years we had about £250,000 worth of IT equipment stolen. ranging from cameras during the day to 80 laptops from our office in a blanket down from a roof and left in a garden to come and collect, to using a trolly jack to pry open the metal bars on the window to kicking in a miniscule window on a roof and getting a young child (or very VERY small adult) to go in and pass laptops up.

 

you can only secure it so much

[plexer]

I presume the insurance will pay out as they were secured.

 

Ben

[maniac]

I presume the insurance will pay out as they were secured.

 

Ben

 

That's up to the business manager to decide, out of my hands. They've never bothered claiming for losses under £5000 before, as it generates so much paperwork, it's actually not economic to do it and in the grand scheme of things ammounts under that are not really significant sums of money. I'll probably get told to just order some replacements.

[pritchardavid]

Not good... This trolley looks the same one we have has well

[maniac]

Not good... This trolley looks the same one we have has well

 

It's a loxit lapbank trolly. I e-mailed a picture of it to their design team this afternoon showing how it had been broken into - they were quite surprised I think.

[Pete10141748]

Same trolleys we have here as well, to be honest I've always thought the doors on them seemed a bit wobbly/flimsy.....

[plexer]

The side doors seem flimsy but the laptop compartment ones are ok - or not

 

Ben

[maniac]

The side doors seem flimsy but the laptop compartment ones are ok - or not

 

Ben

 

Well I can't bend the metal back by hand, so I'd say they're pretty strong. They really went for it to get into this cabinet, must have taken a lot of force to have bent the door out. They've seperated the long hinge from the door all the way down the side, the locks are still locked and in place.

 

The side doors are only a token effort to hide the chargers away, and they are weak and flimsy.

Edited June 20, 2011 by maniac

[Andrew_Sharrad]

Hi,

 

If you let Stone support know the serial numbers of the machines that were stolen, they can look out for any calls placed for those machines.

 

Regards,

 

Andrew

[maniac]

Hi,

 

If you let Stone support know the serial numbers of the machines that were stolen, they can look out for any calls placed for those machines.

 

Regards,

 

Andrew

 

Thanks for your reply Andrew. I've actually already informed Adam Jones of the missing machines serial numbers, so hopefully they are logged somewhere in your system. Chances of anyone being silly enough to ring support with a stolen laptop is slim, but you never know - stranger things have happend.

 

So far no sign of them being recovered, so we guess they're gone for good.

 

Mike.

[contink]

Can't help but think there's a case for some kind of paint bomb release or something similar that disperses a fine dust/ink all over the insides of the cabinet that's indelible for up to 7 days when the cabinet is forced open.

 

It'd create an unholy mess and probably be a b*stard to clean up but it would certainly make identification, re-sale or stolen items harder as well as the capture of the thieving scum considerably more likely...

[Dom_]

I hate those trolleys - the only thing they had going was that they were supposedly super secure! I'd much prefer to spend 1/4 of the price on a cheap trolley that's much easier to move/set up!