A New Zealand Man finds US military personal information on second hand digital MP3 / MP4 player, according to a New Zealand TV report.

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 says recovered the secret information regarding US military personnel on an Mp3 / mp4 player he acquired 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.”

These classified information files include the names and telephone numbers of members of the US armed forces, according to news reports by a local New Zealand TV channel.

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 could be some embarrassment in the top brass, as various files found included the warning that the release of this information is “prohibited by federal law”.

Along with the personal details of the US soldiers, including a list of their social security numbers, the digital files also recorded pregnant female troops, 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.

Mr Ogle, from Whangarei mean time , said he would give the digital files to the US government if requested.

At the moment there’s still no statement from the US Embassy in Wellington.

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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