1272854_pile_of_books_1.jpgYou may be surprised to know that not all laptop thefts from schools are perpetrated by students or by opportunists. Indeed, some of the perpetrators may be school employees.

A teacher and school secretary are facing allegations that they stole laptops from their workplaces in Maryland. The incidents were unrelated, though they occurred in the same Charles County Public School region.

Police searched the homes of these two school workers and turned up missing school computers. One business education teacher has been allegedly connected with the theft of two laptops as well as a school desktop computer. The investigation was spurred on after discovering the high school was missing five computers. Computer keystroke tracking was used to discover the identity of the alleged thief.

In a separate investigation, laptop tracking software was again used to discover the identity of the thief. In both cases, key capturing used log-in names to identify the likely thieves. In one case, the thief logged into the school email system; in the other, the thief used a school e-mail address to log into Facebook.

And the name of the software which recovered both laptops? LoJack for Laptops by Absolute Software.

“We can’t just let assets walk out the door,” Vaughn said. “We’re going to track these things down and prosecute the people who are taking them.”

So, rather than letting those assets walk out the door, school systems around the world are using LoJack for Laptops to help track the systems back down and prosecute the offenders.