Information stolen from Petrobras

SAO PAULO, Brazil – Important information has been stolen from Brazil’s state-run oil firm, the company said Thursday, and one news site reported it was related to two recent major gas and oil finds.

Petroleo Brasileiro SA gave no details about the missing data except to characterize it as “confidential information” stolen from “equipment and materials that contain important information for the company.”


Brazil’s Terra Web site reported that a hard drive and two notebooks were missing after they were supposed to have been transported from an offshore platform to the company’s exploration headquarters in the city of Macae near Rio de Janeiro.

Petrobras declined to comment on the Terra report, but the statement said an investigation was under way and it said the items had been under the control of an unnamed contracting company.

AP