Lock Bumping

DHI keeps abreast of current news stories that are applicable to the Documentation, Preservation and Protection of your assets.

Please take note of Lock Bumping and how it might affect you. Take the appropriate precautions you think may be necessary to protect yourself and your assets. Additional suggestions from DHI include keeping your home inventory current and the use of DataDots, a state-of-the-art asset identification technology.

Lock Bumping is a crime technique that allows criminals to open 90% of ordinary key locks with an modified ordinary key. All the criminal needs is a file to modify a key and an object (screwdriver handle or hammer) to "bump" the key in the lock.

Please see the news report that is posted on the DHI website on this subject.