Security News > 2011 > January > Military hushed up loss of confidential file: sources

http://english.yonhapnews.co.kr/national/2010/12/30/53/0301000000AEN20101230008100315F.HTML Yonhap News Agency 2010/12/30 SEOUL, Dec. 30 (Yonhap) -- A USB memory drive containing military secrets has been missing for months, but authorities are refusing to launch an investigation and trying to keep the case under wraps, inside sources said Thursday. An Army major at a front-line battalion in Gangwon Province lost the portable drive in July, according to the sources. He lied to his superiors, saying that he found the USB drive, but it was severely damaged and had to be discarded, they said. The Defense Security Command (DSC) admitted that they had been told of the missing USB drive from an anonymous informant. "We received the information on Dec. 13. It was dismissed because we thought the anonymous informant had little credibility," an official from the command said. [...] ___________________________________________________________ Tegatai Managed Colocation: Four Provider Blended Tier-1 Bandwidth, Fortinet Universal Threat Management, Natural Disaster Avoidance, Always-On Power Delivery Network, Cisco Switches, SAS 70 Type II Datacenter. Find peace of mind, Defend your Critical Infrastructure. http://www.tegataiphoenix.com/

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