Pentagon warns of ‘serious’ security risk from leaked US documents

Pentagon warns of ‘serious’ security risk from leaked US documents

Over the previous few days, a steady stream of a number of photographs of delicate US navy paperwork associated to the battle in Ukraine have been found on numerous social media websites.

The leaks also include a document that may have been altered to make it show that Ukraine had suffered higher casualties than Russia.
The leaks additionally embrace a doc that will have been altered to make it present that Ukraine had suffered greater casualties than Russia.
(Reuters Archive)

The obvious leak of extremely delicate US paperwork – a lot of them associated to the conflict in Ukraine – presents a “very serious” threat to US nationwide safety, the Pentagon has mentioned.

The paperwork circulating on-line pose “a very serious risk to national security and have the potential to spread disinformation,” Chris Meagher, the assistant to the secretary of protection for public affairs, informed journalists on Monday.

“We’re still investigating how this happened, as well as the scope of the issue. There have been steps to take a closer look at how this type of information is distributed and to whom,” Meagher mentioned.

Meagher declined to touch upon whether or not the paperwork are real, saying a Pentagon workforce is working to make that evaluation, however famous that photographs circulating on-line appeared to point out delicate data.

Security breach

The breach, which is being investigated by the Justice Department, seems to incorporate assessments and secret intelligence studies that contact not solely on Ukraine and Russia but additionally extremely delicate analyses of US allies.

A gentle drip of dozens of images of paperwork have been discovered on Twitter, Telegram, Discord and different websites in latest days, although some might have circulated on-line for weeks, if not months, earlier than they started to obtain media consideration final week.

“Photos appear to show documents similar in format to those used to provide daily updates to our senior leaders on Ukraine and Russia-related operations, as well as other intelligence updates,” Meagher mentioned, however some “appear to have been altered.”

This features a doc circulating on-line that appears to have been altered to make it present that Ukraine had suffered greater casualties than Russia, when the obvious authentic model mentioned the reverse was true.

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Source: AFP

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