[Ed_in_NJ]

"This brought angry rebuttals from customs officers who claimed that the two mainframe servers held thousands of confidential files, including top-secret communications between customs investigators and the AFP and ASIO."

These folks seem to think something 'of value' was taken.

[Core_Conservative]

Most people have no clue as to how "mainframe" computers are actually laid out anymore. The disks (hardrives) are usually seperated from the computer - in another cabinet. Either the theft included the disks (something 'of value') or they probably got nothing except maybe the password file which everyone was told to change their passwords (it they were told to change their passwords - their must be another computer that acts as the password server - keeping you from logging into the mainframe until you have completed the process of "logging on")