Data Breach Exposes RAF Staff To Blackmail

Yehuda writes "Wired reports, 'Yet another breach of sensitive, unencrypted data is making news in the United Kingdom. This time the breach puts Royal Air Force staff at serious risk of being targeted for blackmail by foreign intelligence services or others. The breach involves audio recordings with high-ranking air force officers who were being interviewed in-depth for a security clearance. In the interviews, the officers disclosed information about extra-marital affairs, drug abuse, visits to prostitutes, medical conditions, criminal convictions and debt histories — information the military needed to determine their security risk. The recordings were stored on three unencrypted hard drives that disappeared last year.'"

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[AftanGustur]

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[drachenstern]

Eh, why not leach off an ac's post-height...

Did anyone else read the headline and have to pause for a moment to figure out if blackmail was some sort of new email threat?

My mind went {blackmail->darkmail->email->wtf!?->/facepalm}

But seriously, blackmail and darkmail are great names for spam....