When buying a used second mp3 player, American military secret data was in it

Used audio players and second - hand PC etc are generally sold before erasing all the data before selling and returning to the state before shipment, but among the used mp3 player purchased by a men, It seems there was an incident that military secret data was contained.

I have never heard that military secrets are in the MP3 player, but I'm very concerned that the data is accurate genuine.

Details are from the following.
Man buys used iPod, gets 60 pages of sensitive military data - Ars Technica

When Ogle resident in New Zealand purchased a used mp3 player, when examining the data noticed that it is not being used much, inside 60 pages of personal information of military officials · mission situation report · It seems that it was found that text data on equipment development was contained. It included personal information of soldiers who were dispatched in Afghanistan war and Iraq war.

It seems that most of the military data in 2005 seems to be almost, and it is unknown whether the contents of the data are genuine or not. Moreover, it seems that why the US military secret data was stored in the MP3 player, and how the MP3 player with the military secret was distributed to the buyer.

Mr. Ogle.


This is the MP3 player that contained the data this time.


Ogle says that if it is requested to hand over the MP3 player from the US Department of Defense, it is said that it is declaring that you will pass the MP3 player with data.