A New Zealand citizen uncovers US troop information on second hand digital MP3 player, according to a local TV news report from New Zealand

The man who made this find Chris Ogle claims he discovered the US army digital files when he went to transfer music from his computer to his MP3 player one evening.

The New Zealander told reporters that he recovered the confidential data regarding US military personnel on an Mp3 / mp4 player he bought from a second hand shop in Oklahoma, USA.

Chris Ogle, 29, said: “The more I look at it, the more I see and the less I think I should be looking.”

The classified data files included the names and also the telephone numbers of US soldiers, according to news reports by a news channel in New Zealand.

Nevertheless, the Pentagon can relax a little, as according the opinion of one expert, these confidential files in question, should not be cause for a security risk, as they are dated from 2005, therefore are already 5 years old.

Still there will be some embarrassment in the US Army, as some files found included the warning that the release of this information is “prohibited by federal law”.

Along with the individual details of the US soldiers, including a record of their social security numbers, the data files also detailed pregnant female soldiers, who will by now be female troop mothers, and apparent briefings of missions in Afghanistan.

A spokes person from the Center for Strategic Studies in New Zealand, said of course that while these records should not be circulating in the public domain. He thought it did not appear that it would have a negative affect on national security in the USA.

“This is just slack administrative procedures which are indeed a cause of embarrassment,” he said.

Mean wile Mr Ogle, from Whangarei, said he would hand over the digital files to the US government if required to do so.

However the US Embassy in New Zealand has declined to comment.

This is not the first time that such laps in security surrounding classified US armed forces digital information stored on portal devices.

There was a very similar tale in Afghanistan in 2006 It was reported that US investigators found stolen flash USB drives that held confidential US military information from local shops close to the US base there.

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