Swiss secret service warns foreign peers after data theft

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An employee of the Swiss intelligence service NDB would be terabytes of sensitive information have been captured. The man was arrested and the NDB has his colleagues in the US and the Uk are now alerted to the data theft.

The defendant would of terabytes of sensitive data from systems that have been copied to portable hard drives. On the servers of the Nachrichtendienst des Bundes information would have been that foreign intelligence services with each other exchanged about the fight against terrorism, writes Reuters.

The man, a technician who has eight years at the NDB was working, would the captured data and try to sell it, but would not have passed: he was this summer, was arrested after he located a suspicious manner. It went to information with regard to the fight against terrorism. The NDB came in action after a bank warned that the man is a bank account had opened. The suspect was later released, but a criminal investigation into the man, still running.

Although the Swiss think that the husband failed to provide the stolen data to sell, the NDB colleagues in the united states and the United Kingdom warned of the likelihood that the information is no longer secret. The alleged offender is further described as a talented person with sufficient rights to access virtually all of the secret data to the systems of the Swiss secret services.

The defendant would have acted out of discontent about his position within the secret service. So, there would not have been listened to opinions of the man over the management of the data systems of the NDB. Nevertheless, there is in Switzerland the discussion about the security in the NDB. This relatively young secret service would have failed to monitor his staff.