Laptop containing military secrets was sold on the internet for £18.87

[Krumpelt]

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..The Afghanistan veteran’s scavenged computer, sold on eBay for ‘spares or repair’, could have been used to deadly effect by the Taliban.

Files – none of which required passwords - included troop numbers, patrol details, ammunition stock lists and locations of every police command post in a Helmand town.

The shocked buyer, who handed the laptop to the MoD, also found it contained hundreds of photos, along with names and other details, of locals risking their lives by joined the Afghan National Police and Afghan National Army.

Also stored on the Toshiba Satellite A30 laptop was a copy of the Afghan National Police’s tactical handbook, giving details of every aspect of how to take on and defeat the enemy, including how to identify IED roadside bombs.

The computer was used by Sandhurst-trained Cpt Sugden during seven months with the Coldstream Guards in Afghanistan.

After handing it over to the MoD, the IT engineer who made the winning bid on the internet auction site told The Sun: ‘I couldn't believe it - the laptop could have been bought by anyone...

...The officer, an anti-tank platoon commander in Afghanistan, told top brass he thought the laptop's hard drive had been wiped when he dumped it.

As a further precaution, he used a hammer to wreck the machine.

But once the IT expert who purchased the machine opened it up, he discovered the hard drive intact and found details that could have highly valuable for terrorists.

Many documents were classed as secret or restricted.

The locations of police command posts was even conveniently filed under the heading ‘Nato Secret’...

read more http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1328667/Afghanistan-military-secrets-sold-eBay-army-officer-dumped-laptop.html?ITO=1490

Guys, I do not know that it is here possible to say...

Files – none of which required passwords -

As a further precaution, he used a hammer to wreck the machine.

God Save Britain !..

[leofelix]

all I can say is that who wrote that article doesn't understand anything of military life.

NATO troops do not consider as enemies Afghanistan people, their mission is not what journalists and some politicians want people to believe.

Not to count that hardly you will find military secrets into a personal computer belonging to a Coldstream Guards Captain (Light infantry)

[Krumpelt]

And until now I do not see refutation in a newspaper.
And read comments here.

[leofelix]

I have to say that the comments are more hilarious than the article itself

funny, screwball and written by people who exactly like that journalist do not understand anything of military life. And probably they never did the military service

[Krumpelt]

Not to count that hardly you will find military secrets into a personal computer belonging to a Coldstream Guards Captain (Light infantry)

...Hmmm...

The officer, an anti-tank platoon commander in Afghanistan, told top brass he thought the laptop's hard drive had been wiped when he dumped it.

[johnshaw1917]

Not to count that hardly you will find military secrets into a personal computer belonging to a Coldstream Guards Captain (Light infantry)

Yes Leo, I was wondering about that myself. If the story being told is true, IMHO he must have been involved in security somehow, or he wouldn't have possessed that kind of information.

[leofelix]

...Hmmm...

The officer, an anti-tank platoon commander in Afghanistan, told top brass he thought the laptop's hard drive had been wiped when he dumped it.

;-)

The computer was used by Sandhurst-trained Cpt Sugden during seven months with the Coldstream Guards in Afghanistan.

that article should have written for a scandal sheet/ tabloid:-)
A Captain is not a commander of a Platoon, a Lieutenent is.

I think I have spent years enough in the Army and as a journalist later to recognize such a kind of news

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Yes Leo, I was wondering about that myself. If the story being told is true, IMHO he must have been involved in security somehow, or he wouldn't have possessed that kind of information.

Indeed
If he really that officer have been involved with the British Intelligence Service he also must have known how to completely wipe any data from an Hard Disk

[johnshaw1917]

;-) Indeed If he really that officer have been involved with the British Intelligence Service he also must have known how to completely wipe any data from an Hard Disk

One would certainly hope so, or maybe he flunked that course in training!

[luffy]

I would not believe in dailymail article. Let me know if it is from BBC news.

[Krumpelt]

Thank you, Leo,Luffy and johnshaw1917 for answers ! Maybe, some disparity is here actual...
Anybody from the British army here on a forum ?