Security Scrapbook - CEO laptop stolen at off-site meeting
Tue, 19 Sep 2000
To: Clients, colleagues and friends
From: Murray Associates
Subject: CEO laptop stolen at off-site meeting.
Summary: FBI probes disappearance of CEO's laptop (a cautionary tale).
SAN DIEGO (AP) Authorities tried Monday to determine if the suspicious disappearance of a laptop computer belonging to the chief executive officer of Qualcomm was a simple case of thievery or an act of economic espionage.
The FBI has begun an investigation at the request of Qualcomm executives, said Cheryl Mimura, a spokeswoman for the bureau's Los Angeles office.
Qualcomm declined to comment on the investigation.