The 18-year-old Boston, Massachusetts university student at the weekend posted on the web a video of the thief dancing to a rap song that was recorded with the stolen laptop's webcam.
The footage was found using special backup software he had installed on the laptop that would upload any new files to a computer server which only he had access to. "In essence I was able to get into their files," Bao said, speaking with Fairfax.
So when the thief decided to record some fancy new dance moves to music in front of his newly stolen laptop's web camera, the video file was uploaded to the server, which Bao said he only discovered at the weekend when looking for a file that had been backed up.
