Stolen military data for sale in Afghanistan (update)

[genieroze]

Stolen military data for sale in Afghanistan
Portable computer drives peddled at bazaar outside Bagram Air Base

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• Drives with military data stolen, sold
April 13: NBC's Lisa Myers reports on a security breach at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan involving computer drives that contained sensitive information that were stolen, smuggled and sold.

• U.S. buys back data from Afghans

Updated: 7:31 p.m. ET April 13, 2006


Lisa Myers
Senior investigative correspondent
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WASHINGTON - Just outside the main gate of the huge U.S. military base in Bagram, Afghanistan, shopkeepers at a bazaar peddle a range of goods, including computer drives with sensitive — even secret information — stolen from the base.

This week, an NBC News producer, using a hidden camera, visited the bazaar and bought a half dozen of the memory drives the size of a thumb known as flash drives. On them, NBC News found highly sensitive military information, some which NBC will not reveal.

“This isn't just a loss of sensitive information,” says Lt. Col. Rick Francona (ret.), an NBC News military analyst. “This is putting U.S. troops at risk. This is a violation of operational security.”


update
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12305580/

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1. IS THIS WHAT REPUGS CALL SUPPORTING THE TROOPS???

ITS amazing that this isn't news on tv msm..guess they don't want to expose the bumbling , murdering, sob idiots in this admin isn't it?

shaking head here...and worrying about our soldiers!!

fly

[genieroze]

2. It did make it into the mainstream print though including our local paper.

When The original was posted in
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-disks10apr10,0,7789909.story?page=1&coll=la-home-headlines
I went usenet happy posting this all over the place and three days later it made msnbc. This is pretty big news.