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Data Breach Exposes RAF Staff to Blackmail | Threat Level | Wired.com - 0 views

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    Yet another breach of sensitive, unencrypted data is making news in the United Kingdom. This time the breach puts Royal Air Force staff at serious risk of being targeted for blackmail by foreign intelligence services or others. The breach involves audio recordings with high-ranking air force officers who were being interviewed in-depth for a security clearance. In the interviews, the officers disclosed information about extra-marital affairs, drug abuse, visits to prostitutes, medical conditions, criminal convictions and debt histories - information the military needed to determine their security risk. The recordings were stored on three unencrypted hard drives that disappeared last year. The interviews were conducted to ensure that the officers "can be trusted with sensitive government information and property," the Ministry of Defense said. But the interviews have now become a huge security risk for the officers and the Ministry of Defence, which has proven itself to be untrustworthy when it comes to guarding sensitive information and property.
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