Things you can get on eBay: MI-6 Secrets

Nov. 13, 2008

For $31, a British man bought a Nikon Coolpix camera off eBay and found that the memory stick contained highly secret MI6 anti-terrorism information. In the files were names of suspected Al Qaeda militants and photos of weapons those terrorists have as well as details on an high-encryption MI6 computer system used to keep track of intelligence details. The files were discovered when he downloaded his pics after a vacation.

No, I'm not making this up. Here's MSNBC's story on the breach.

-Geoff

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Geoff Kohl

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Geoff Kohl is the Marketing Director for the Security Industry Association (SIA). He is the former Editor-in-Chief of SecurityInfoWatch.com

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