http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20080309a3.html Kyodo News March 9, 2008 In what appears to be its latest example of lax information management, the Maritime Self-Defense Force has discovered defense documents and file-sharing software on the private computers of a 34-year-old lieutenant, sources familiar with the matter said. The MSDF is attempting to determine whether the data include confidential files, they said. The officer was found in Maizuru, Kyoto Prefecture, on Wednesday after fleeing following questioning on Feb. 23 about a leak of classified information by the MSDF, including data on the Aegis air-defense system used on U.S. and Japanese destroyers. The officer, who is assigned to the MSDF's Maizuru headquarters, began storing data on his computers about 10 years ago and added information from a number of units he was assigned to, the sources said. He also apparently failed to obey recent directives from the Defense Ministry to delete sensitive data and file-sharing software from private computers, they said. The officer had five to six computers at home, including one with file-sharing software installed and at least one other containing the defense data, they said. He was previously found to have stored confidential defense data that apparently contained information on the Aegis system, they said. The Aegis data leak, which came to light in January 2004, resulted in the indictment of MSDF Lt. Commander Sumitaka Matsuuchi, 34, on a charge of violating the Law Concerning the Protection of Secrets for the Japan-U.S. Mutual Defense Assistance. ___________________________________________________ Subscribe to InfoSec News http://www.infosecnews.org/mailman/listinfo/isn
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