British soldier ignored order to pull his SIM card, then got blackmailed
Summary
A British soldier stationed near the Russian border ignored a direct command to remove his mobile phone SIM card before deployment. Because of this security failure, his device was hacked and he subsequently became the target of blackmail.
An Estonian newspaper recently revealed that a British soldier disobeyed a direct order to remove the SIM card from his cellphone before being deployed to a part of Estonia, approximately 90 miles west of the Russian border. As a result of his refusal to engage in this element of operational security (opsec), the soldier, Daniel Barton-Kennedy, had his phone hacked,…
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