Sensitive Defense Documents Found at Bus Stop

Classified Ministry of Defence (MoD) documents have reportedly been discovered at a bus stop in southern England, raising concerns over national security.

Nearly 50 pages were found by a member of the public behind the bus stop in Kent last Tuesday, and shown to the BBC.

They are said to contain printed emails and PowerPoint presentations from a senior official at the MoD.

These include information on the decision-making process that saw a Type 45 destroyer, HMS Defender, sail in a controversial “freedom of navigation” manoeuver close to Russian-annexed Crimea last week.

Other documents in the trawl reportedly included discussions of arms exports campaigns, briefing notes on President Biden’s first few months in office, and the role of British special forces in Afghanistan once the US pulls out.

Most of the documents are said to have been marked “official sensitive,” which is a fairly low level of classification. However, the Afghanistan document, intended for defense secretary Ben Wallace, was labelled “Secret UK Eyes Only” — indicating a high level of sensitivity.

Apricorn’s EMEA managing director, Jon Fielding, said the incident was “disturbing” given the efforts underway in many organizations to digitally secure sensitive documents.

“We don’t know how the documents came to be there, but this should serve as another wake-up call for the government to take the need to secure sensitive data more seriously,” he argued.

“The public and private sector are adapting to a new way of working that requires data to be transf ..

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