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US Customs supervisor busted for stealing Core i7 CPUs, RAM, and hard drives from Homeland Security PCs, damage estimated at
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According to a report from The Maine Wire, the FBI has arrested and charged Terry “Jiajia” Liu, a Customs and Border Protection supervisor based in Calais, Maine, for theft and damage to government property.
Key facts
- Restoring the stolen hardware could cost about $20,460, while fully replacing all 46 compromised computers with equivalent hardware would cost an estimated $105,800
- The Newegg trade-in offers varied between $200 and $210 per processor
- According to the transaction records from the U.S. retailer, Liu traded in Core i7 Raptor Lake Refresh chips 16 times over 14 months, from May 2025 to July 2026
- Liu allegedly stole computer hardware, including Intel 14th Generation Raptor Lake Refresh processors, memory modules, and hard drives, from at least 46 Department of Homeland Security computers
Summary
Intel VP Robert Hallock sets Nova Lake expectations, teases return to Raptor Lake for DDR4 platforms. Benchmarking AMD's BC-250, offering Steam Machine-like performance at half the price. AMD splits Zen 7 into three EPYC families for 2028 and starts selling server CPUs by the agent. Liu’s official responsibilities were limited to information-technology support, so they did not have access to modify any government computer.