Chris Ogle of New Zealand bought a used iPod for $15. Upon using it the first time he found page after page of sensitive US Military documents.
The iPod reportedly contains everything from the names and personal details of thousands of soldiers, many of whom served in Afghanistan and Iraq, to mission details and equipment information.
The initial question is why the iPod was sold with that information on it. The larger question is why in heck is this kind of information being stored on an iPod and for what purpose and.... why hasn't the government asked for this back??
From ars technica website:
This incident is probably not the worst breach of military data in recent memory. About a year ago, a UK military recruitment officer's notebook containing over 600,000 personally identifying, unencrypted records was stolen from his car. In 2007, the US military began clamping down on "milbloggers" who may have inadvertently been giving away too much information to the enemy by posting about day-to-day base operations on increasingly popular public blogs. Of course, there is also Gary McKinnon, who is responsible for the "biggest military hack of all time." While McKinnon wasn't exactly snooping for the bad guys, he did manage to break into various systems across the US Army, Navy, Air Force, NASA, Pentagon, and Department of Defense in search for proof that aliens exist.
Still, Ogle's situation is a bit bizarre in that no one knows how or why this sensitive information was stored on an iPod, or how that iPod slipped out to a used hardware vendor. According to the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), some of the phone numbers from the iPod's records still work, and the identified individuals indeed picked up on the other end.
"The more I look at it, the more I see and the less I think I should be [seeing]," Mr Ogle told ABC. He says he will hand the iPod over to the US Defense Department should it ever ask.
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