Top Secret Documents Found On MP3 Player

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 told reporters that he recovered the confidential data regarding US military personnel on an Mp3 / mp4 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.\”

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.

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\”.

Along with the personal details of the US soldiers, including a list of their social security numbers, the digital files also recorded pregnant female troops, 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 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.

However the US Embassy in New Zealand has declined to comment.

This is not the first time that such laps in security surrounding classified US armed forces digital information stored on portal devices.

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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