MI6 Digital Camera Sold on eBay for £17, Contained Classified Files
Posted October 1st, 2008 by Alex IonI am going to doubt the fact that the MI6 agents are so stupid that they don’t erase highly classified images on a camera if they plan to sell it on eBay, but I’ll go with the wave and say the news is real.
Apparently a funny James Bond agent from the MI6 sold a secondhand Nikon Coolpix camera on eBay for just £17 (some $30) and simply forgot to erase those classified rocket launchers pictures and hand-drawn graphics of terrorist links, most of them related to Abdul al-Hadi al-Iraqi, a high-ranking al-Qaeda officer.
The new 28-year old owner from Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire found them all along with his own, after a vacation in the US.
That’s either an unimaginable mistake for the agency or this guy is a great Photoshop wiz and managed to do a great job with those files. Local police is investigating the whole thing.
Source (image courtesy of Chaz Folkes)
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