A man from New Zealand discovers US army information on second hand MP3 player, according to reports from New Zealand TV
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 found the secret data regarding US military personnel on an Personal media player he bought 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 classified information files include the names and telephone numbers of members of the US armed forces, according to news reports by a local 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in question, are unlikely to be a security concern, as they are dated from 2005, therefore are already 5 years out of date.
Still there will be some embarrassment in the US Army, as some files found included the warning that the release of this information 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 spokes person from the Center for Strategic Studies in New Zealand, said of course that while these records should not be circulating in the public domain. He thought it did not appear that it would have a negative affect on national security in the USA.
“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.
However the US Embassy in New Zealand has declined to comment.
This is not the first time that such laps in security surrounding secret US military information stored electronically.
There was a very similar tale in Afghanistan in 2006 It was reported that US investigators found stolen flash USB drives that held confidential US military information from local shops close to the US base there.
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