The U.S. Secret Service announced on Friday a laptop was stolen from an agent's car in New York City but said agency-issued computers contain multiple layers of security and are not permitted to contain classified information.

The agency said in a statement that it was withholding additional comment while an investigation continues.

ABC News, citing law enforcement sources, said the laptop contained floor plans for Trump Tower, details on the criminal investigation of Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server and other national security information.

The New York Daily News, citing police sources, said authorities had been searching for the laptop since it was stolen on Thursday morning from the agent's vehicle in Brooklyn.

Some items stolen with the laptop, including coins and a black bag with the Secret Service insignia on it, were later recovered, the newspaper reported.

'There's data on there that's highly sensitive'

CBS News, also citing law enforcement sources, said that some of the documents on the computer included important files on Pope Francis.

The agent also told investigators that while nothing about the White House or foreign leaders is stored on the laptop, the information on it could compromise national security, the Daily News reported.

"There's data on there that's highly sensitive," a police source told the newspaper, adding: "They're scrambling like mad."

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Somebody going to be headed to the unemployment line. Multiple layers of security may not help much if an experienced hacker gets it.


U.S. Secret Service agent's stolen laptop may contain national security information

Multiple layers of security may not help much if an experienced hacker gets it.


Have to agree with that ...

If it was a experienced thief who knew what he was doing and targeted the lap top for what is on there. they most likely will never get it back and the files hacked and transferred to who knows where.

If it was just a regular NYC thief doing a crime of opportunity type theft, as soon as someone uses that computer to get on the internet the computer will " ping" the entities I.T dept. as to its exact location.

We were robbed in NYC (our office broken into, in a up scale Manhattan office building.) 5 lap tops stolen, all had sensitive company stuff on them. I called the cops, notified our I.T dept. And sure enough 2 days later one pinged to our I.T. dept.it pinging from a tenement building in the Bronx. Cops were called, given the address. And arrested the guy, who then ratted out the actual thief. The thief was also on the building security camera but the photos were not enough to identify him.

We had these chips installed in the computers when we purchase and outfitted them.

We got the lap tops back, except one.


I would hope the secrete service has something much more sophisticated in locating the lap top then we did.