The Cheshire home they rented was the subject of an attempted break-in in March while the family were there.
There was no sign of a break-in in either case, said Capt. Jim Nocco of the Philadelphia police.
That break-in, in Tweed, escalated into break-ins of 47 other homes near Tweed as well as in Ottawa, where he spent weekends with his wife.
So-called cybercrime is skyrocketing, with one recent study finding that 90percentt of corporations surveyed have suffered a computer break-in in the last year.
BitFloor suffered its own break-in in September, losing 24,000 bitcoins when a hacker "accessed an unencrypted backup of wallet keys".
"I want to know," says the man, "if Richard Nixon knew about the break-in in advance". The room erupts in laughter.
After the Watergate break-in, in July of 1972, the Washington Post reported that Rove had taught "dirty tricks" to the College Republicans, an organization that he and Lee Atwater headed.
Although the original foreclosure was rescinded, as promised, Ms. Ash, who discovered the break-in in January 2009, says it is hard for her to visit the house anymore and she will probably let it lapse into foreclosure.
A security guard at Cardinal Hayes High School in the Bronx came across three young men during a break-in in March, said the school's president, Joseph Tierney, adding that the three intruders fled without stealing anything.
I write in regard to my advice to E.ON on the security of their site at Kingsnorth in Kent, following a break-in in 2008 (Police chief accused of undermining protests, 18 January).
