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Air Canada IT Worker Uncovered Airport Gold Heist
Air Canada IT worker helped solve Toronto airport gold heist mystery.
In brief
Air Canada IT worker helped solve Toronto airport gold heist mystery. Air Canada IT specialist Joshua Priebe analyzed computer logs to uncover how thieves executed the $22 million Toronto Pearson airport gold heist in 2023. Originally reported by Nationalpost.
Joshua Priebe at trial
Air Canada technology specialist Joshua Priebe testified at court about how he helped uncover the Toronto Pearson airport gold heist.
“When we were down there we all got a message”
Heist details
Thieves stole a shipment of gold and cash worth more than $22 million from Air Canada's Toronto cargo warehouse in 2023.
Priebe's role
Priebe was manager of application development and maintenance at Air Canada's Pearson airport cargo facility in 2023.
IT analysis
Priebe analyzed over 400,000 lines of code from employee computer usage to find patterns matching how the heist could have been executed.
How he solved it
Priebe tried to imagine how he would have executed the heist to understand the thief's methods and find the security breach.
“I tried to put myself in the mindset of how I would have done something like this”
The bottom line
Air Canada IT specialist Joshua Priebe analyzed computer logs to uncover how thieves executed the $22 million Toronto Pearson airport gold heist in 2023.
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