Navy officials punished for handling classified documents recklessly
ROC Central News Agency
2007-10-14 18:34:36
Taipei, Oct. 14 (CNA) Three Navy officials, including a rear admiral were punished for inappropriately handling classified documents, according to a statement issued by the Ministry of National Defense Sunday.
The statement confirmed a report carried by Sunday's United Daily News that Commander Shen Jao-chun, a staff member of the Navy Command Headquarters in Taipei, was reprimanded and removed from his current post for downloading classified documents and processing them on his personal computer at home.
His direct superior, Captain Hsiang Ching-tsung, was also reprimanded and removed for failing to learn of the matter and correct it.
Rear Admiral Chu Tsung-rung, chief of the department at which the two officers worked was spared a reprimand, but has been removed from his post as a consequence.
The terse statement quoted a report from the Navy Command Headquarters as saying that the Navy, which bans accessing official documents on personal computers, is taking the incident seriously and tightening up security procedures to prevent a repetition of it.
The United Daily News said the incident was detected "recently" by a "friendly military unit" which found Shen processed classified military documents on his personal computer against military regulations.
Shen downloaded military documents without permit onto a USB disk and then handled them on his personal computer. These documents were thereby stolen by hackers who successfully broke into Shen's personal computer as he surfed the Internet, said the United Daily News.
(By Maubo Chang)
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