Journalists bought a hard drive containing sensitive documents belonging to U.S. government contractor Northrop Grumman. The drive had belonged to a Fairfax, Virginia, employee who still works for the company. The data was unencrypted and contained “hundreds and hundreds of documents about government contracts,” an expert says. The company is not sure how the drive ended up in a Ghana market, but apparently the company hired an outside vendor to dispose of the PC. It’s common for old computers and electronic devices to be improperly dumped in developing countries such as Ghana and China.”]
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