GCHQ Data Stolen

Work placement is a success

Sky News reports:

A university student accused of removing top secret information worth millions of pounds while on a work placement with GCHQ has pleaded guilty to causing a serious risk to national security.

While on secondment to the agency, [the student] took his work mobile phone into a top-secret area and connected the device to a workstation.

He then transferred sensitive data, containing the names of GCHQ employees, from a secure computer to the phone before taking it home.

A spokesperson told FNN:

This internship has proved to be a great success as it shows how easy it is for anyone to steal sensitive data from GCHQ using just their mobile phone and a USB cable.

They don't need to be James Bond a
nd he is not even Russian!

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