• By Adrian Covert
    May 1, 2009 10:00 PM 17,256
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    UK's MI6 Scrapped Multi-Million Dollar Undercover Operation Because of Lost USB Drive

    You'd think MI6 agents would handle top-secret data more carefully than on memory stick in a purse, right? Well that purse was left behind on a train in 2006, compromising a multi-million dollar drug operation.

    Secure Computing says that an agent only known as T was responsible for the gaffe, which took place on a Colombian passenger train. Apparently the fallout from the incident resulted in a number of agents having to be relocated for safety purposes. But MI6 assures us all that they now take more secure precautions with sensitive data. [Secure Computing via Wired]


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