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Top Secret Documents Found On MP3 Player

by David Morris

A New Zealand Man finds US military personal information on second hand digital MP3 / MP4 player, according to a New Zealand TV report.

The man who made this find Chris Ogle claims he discovered the US army digital files when he went to transfer music from his computer to his MP3 player one evening.

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in question, are unlikely to be a security concern, as they are dated from 2005, therefore are already 5 years out of date.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”.

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 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 data files to the US government if they asked.

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 top secret US forces information stored digitally.

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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