US Government Data Compromised

US Government Data Compromised

A hard disk drive bought from the market of Ghana contained classified information concerning the US government. The confidential data was the property of Northrop Grumman, US government contractor.
 

The HDD is owned by an employee of Northrop, and is believed to consist of hundreds of US government contract documents. Lead investigator Peter Klein said the docs were highly sensitive, although he did not disclose the complete details of the data. 

 

Northrop Grumman could not tell how the HDD  was auctioned in a Ghana market, but the firm had employed a third-party vendor to discard the PC. Northrop did not reveal who was the vendor but a spokesman from the company stated, "the fact that this information is outside our control is disconcerting."