A mug shot of a taxi driver who stole a laptop belonging to Joshua Kaufman is one of the famed faces over the World Wide Web these days.

The capturing of the thief’s close-up photo was made possible by the laptop’s built-in camera which has been activated by the software “Hidden” that Kaufman installed to it.

Kaufman informed the Oakland police that his gadget was stolen from his apartment on March 21. Unfortunately, the police was not able to pull up any resources to detect the whereabouts of the stolen good. Because of this, he conducted with the use of “Hidden” and the power of social media.

It took Kaufman four weeks to gather information like photos of the thief and his exact location through the tracking software for iMacs and MacBooks which was designed for situations such as this.

“This Guy Has My MacBook” which was created by Kaufman, caused some of its readers and viewers to spy the thief in their own ways as Kaufman uploads the burglar’s photos and locations for the time being.

Moreover, he shared the pieces of evidence with a police investigator, but the Police investigation showed no improvement in the following days. Kaufman kept on accounting every move of the taxi driver, and his evidence accumulated; he tweeted about his self-conducted investigation. His post made its way to “Good Morning America” which consequently called the attention of the Oakland Police regarding their investigation on the reported crime.

Afterwards, Kaufman’s latest post read as follows.

“The police used evidence I had gathered using Hidden (an email address which pointed to a cab service) that he was a driver and tricked him into picking them up.Later that evening the officers acquired my MacBook from his home. I picked it up from the Oakland Police Department on the morning of June 1.”

The theft-tracking software costs only $15 annually. It can be activated distantly and will collection information like location, photos of the user/s and screen shots.