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Tuesday, January 26, 2010

MoD staff leaked secret data online

Staff in the Ministry of Defence (MoD) have repeatedly leaked secret data onto Facebook, Twitter and internet forums.

A Freedom of Information (FoI) request by Lewis PR revealed that MoD staff had leaked secret data 16 times in the last 18 months.

While it has not been made clear what sort of information was leaked, MoD staff would be penalised for publishing information on operations or deployments, wider defence activity or sensitive political activity without authorisation.

The MoD refused to comment on whether the leaks related to operational issues.

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