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A man from New Zealand discovers US army information on second hand MP3 player, according to reports from New Zealand TV
by DavidMorris
A man from New Zealand discovers US army information on second hand MP3 player, according to reports from New Zealand TV
The guy at in the middle of it Chris Ogle says he found the US army information files when he went to download MP3s from his computer to his MP3 player one morning.
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."
These secret data files include the telephone numbers and names of US armed forces personal, according to news reports by a New Zealand TV channel.
However, the Pentagon can relax a little, as according to one expert, the confidential documents in question, are unlikely to be a security concern, as they are dated from 2005, therefore are already 5 years out of date.
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".
Along with the individual details of the US soldiers, including a record of their social security numbers, the data files also detailed pregnant female soldiers, who will by now be female troop mothers, and apparent briefings of missions in Afghanistan.
A spokesman from the Center for Strategic Studies in New Zealand, said of course that while this data 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.
Mean wile Mr Ogle, from Whangarei, said he would hand over the digital files to the US government if required to do so.
Currently there is no statement from the US Embassy in New Zealand.
This is not the first time that such laps in security surrounding secret US military information stored electronically.
There was a similar story in 2006 when a breach happened in Afghanistan. It was reported that US investigators found stolen flash USB memory sticks containing classified US military records from local shops in Bagram right by a main US base.
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