A New Zealand man, who bought an MP3 player from a thrift shop in Oklahoma, found it held 60 US military files
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In reel life: Chris Ogle can surely relate to Brad Pitt's character in Burn After Reading. In the film, two fitness experts (including Pitt) find a disc containing the memoirs of a CIA agent |
A New Zealand man, who bought an MP3 player from a thrift shop in Oklahoma, found it held 60 US military files.
Chris Ogle (29), who bought the gadget for $18 (Rs 900), found personal details of US soldiers telephone numbers, Social Security numbers and even which female troops were pregnantu00a0in the files.
Details of equipment deployed to bases in Afghanistan and a mission briefing were also found on some files. Some of the files included a warning that the release of its contents is "prohibited by federal law".
Ogle said he would hand the files to US officials if asked. "The more I look at it, the more I see and the less I think I should be looking," he said.
Most of the files are dated 2005, so are unlikely to compromise US national security, said experts.
A similar breach happened in 2006, when shopkeepers outside an Afghan base started selling flash drives with US military information that had been stolen by Afghans employed at the base.
