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Confirmed: 'The Most Significant Breach of U.S. Military Computers Ever'

seal of the U.S. cyber commandA previously classified incident from 2008, in which a foreign agent placed an infected thumb drive on a U.S. military laptop in the Middle East and penetrated both classified and unclassified networks, has just been confirmed by Deputy Secretary of Defense William J. Lynn III as "the most significant breach of U.S. military computers ever."

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