FLORIDA (UPDATE) GOVERNMENT COMPUTER STOLEN MyFox Orlando | Computer stolen from Maitland state office:


Computer stolen from Maitland state office
Last Edited: Monday, 01 Dec 2008, 11:23 AM EST
Created: Monday, 01 Dec 2008, 11:23 AM EST

BY SHANNON BUTLER
FOX 35 NEWS

MAITLAND, Fla. (WOFL FOX 35, Orlando) -- Police in Maitland are still trying to figure out what a thief or thieves were after when they busted into a state office Monday morning and took a computer.

The robbery happened at 2301 Maitland Center Parkway around 2 a.m. Police someone threw a rock right through the window. The crook was in and out with the computer’s hard drive before anyone noticed anything.

A break-in at the Department of Revenue has people using the office shaking their heads. Dennis Shipman is not too concerned about this information being in the wrong hands, but more about security at state offices.

There were no security cameras outside, but an alarm did go off scaring the thief or thieves away. There are still questions about what was on that computer. The state isn't sure because the employee whose computer was stolen is on vacation.

The state did confirm that the computer belonged to a state property tax employee. The Department of Revenue oversees the payment of property taxes, sales and even child support payments and tax payments.

The state will continue to try and figure out what was and wasn't on that computer, but a Department of Revenue spokesperson said any information on the computer was encrypted.