Classified Documents Recovered on MP3 Player
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Published: February 10, 2010
A New Zealand citizen uncovers US troop information on second hand digital MP3 player, according to a local TV news report from New Zealand
The person at the center of this story Chris Ogle claims he discovered the US army information files when he went to download music from the internet to his MP3 player one afternoon.
The New Zealander says recovered the secret information regarding US military personnel on an Mp3 / mp4 player he acquired from a second hand shop in Oklahoma, USA.
Chris Ogle, 29, said: \”The more I look at it, the more I see and the less I think I should be looking.\”
The classified data files included the names and also the telephone numbers of US soldiers, according to news reports by a news channel in New Zealand.
Nevertheless, the Pentagon can relax a little, as according the opinion of one expert, these confidential files in question, should not be cause for a security risk, as they are dated from 2005, therefore are already 5 years old.
However, there will be some red faces in the high command, as a number of files found included the warning that the disclosure of its contents is \”prohibited by federal law\”.
As well as the individual details of the US soldiers, including a listing of their social security numbers, the information files also detailed pregnant female soldiers, who will by now be female troop mothers, there were also apparent briefings of missions in Afghanistan.
A spokesman from the Center for Strategic Studies in New Zealand, said of course that while this information should not be circulating in the public domain. He felt it was not likely that it would have a negative affect on US national security.
\”This is just slack administrative procedures which are indeed a cause of embarrassment,\” he said.
Mr Ogle, from Whangarei mean time , said he would give the digital files to the US government if requested.
At the moment there\’s still no statement from the US Embassy in Wellington.
This is not the first time that such laps in security surrounding secret US military information stored electronically.
In 2006 Afghanistan, it was reported that US investigators recovered stolen flash memory drives that contained sensitive US military data from local shops in Bagram just by a main US base there.
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