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A Swiss Spy May Have Stolen Millions Of Classified CIA Documents
Tuesday, December 4, 2012 16:52
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A Swiss Spy May Have Stolen Millions Of Classified CIA Documents
Posted by Charleston Voice
Michael Kelley | Dec. 4, 2012, 9:52 AM
Secret information shared by U.S. and UK spy agencies may have been compromised when a senior IT technician for Switzerland’s intelligence service (NBD) stole a massive amount of internal data, Mark Hosenball of Reuters reports.
The technician, who had unrestricted access to most if not all of NBD’s networks, reportedly downloaded terabytes of classified material onto portable hard drives and then carried the trove – equivalent to hundreds of thousands or even millions of printed pages – out of government buildings in a backpack.
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