Oops! Web Mistake Spills Naval Nuclear Secrets

The Ministry of Defence has admitted that secret information about the UK’s nuclear powered submarines was made available on the internet by mistake.

A technical error on a UK secret document meant that blacked-out parts of an online MoD report could be read by pasting into another document. Details were reported to include expert opinion on how well the fleet could cope with a catastrophic accident.

The MoD said a secure version had now been published and it was working to stop such an incident happening again.

Full Post at http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-13107413

Big oops!

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