'Secret data' found on hard disk of Kafeel's computer

BANGALORE: Experts have succeeded in decoding 'secret information' stored in the hard disk of a computer seized from the home here of Kafeel Ahmed, a suspect in the terror attack on Glasgow airport, official sources said on Tuesday.

The Thiruvananthapuram-based Resource Centre for Cyber Forensics, which is under the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC), will submit it report on the disk's contents to Bangalore Police, the sources said.

City police launched an investigation a day after the botched terror plot in Britain was reported due to suspicions that Kafeel was linked to it. Police seized a computer and CDs during a search of his residence in Banashankari here.

Kafeel, who is believed to have driven the burning jeep laden with crude bombs into Glasgow airport, had stored 'project' data in the hard disk and protected it with a secret code that is difficult to decipher, the sources said.

An expert in the Indian Institute of Science here could not decode the contents of the hard disk, which police believe has vital information on the terror plot allegedly hatched by Kafeel, an engineer.

Fearing that repeated attempts to decode the information might lead to its deletion, police sent the disk to the facility in Thiruvananthapuram.

The sources, however, refused to say whether the experts in Thiruvananthapuram had been able to retrieve all the data on the disk or if only part of the information had been culled from it.