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Swap Porn, Leak Defense Secrets …

April 5, 2007

USS Lake Champlain

So, we’ve seen many hospitals, financial institutions, and some defense contractors lose, misplace, or leak data via losing laptops, taking flash drives home, losing CDs, etc. etc. This is a new one. Defense data on the Aegis radar system was not quite leaked but could have been … because of swapping porn between computers in Japan.

The officer told police he accidentally copied the confidential data onto his computer’s hard disk when copying porn from a computer belonging to a crew member from another destroyer, the Yomiuri newspaper reported.

A third officer was also found to have copied data on the Aegis system alongside pornographic images, the Yomiuri said. Source: MSNBC

Note that although the leak was in Japan, the Aegis is our system … so those are our dang secrets being swapped with porn!