{"id":4580,"date":"2018-12-09T23:40:01","date_gmt":"2018-12-09T23:40:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/?p=4580"},"modified":"2018-12-09T23:40:01","modified_gmt":"2018-12-09T23:40:01","slug":"albania-publicly-posting-sensitive-intelligence-data-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2018\/12\/09\/albania-publicly-posting-sensitive-intelligence-data-online\/","title":{"rendered":"ALBANIA PUBLICLY POSTING SENSITIVE INTELLIGENCE DATA ONLINE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/12\/Albania_Shish_secret_service.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4581\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/12\/Albania_Shish_secret_service.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"383\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/12\/Albania_Shish_secret_service.jpg 720w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/12\/Albania_Shish_secret_service-300x160.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/12\/Albania_Shish_secret_service-560x298.jpg 560w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/12\/Albania_Shish_secret_service-260x138.jpg 260w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/12\/Albania_Shish_secret_service-160x85.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: The Independent<\/p>\n<p>By Borzou Daragahi Vincent Triest<\/p>\n<p>Albania, a Nato country, is posting sensitive information about its most senior intelligence operatives on the internet, making details about their identities, vehicles, operational roles, travel movements, and daily habits publicly available in what appears to be a major and potentially dangerous breach that could have international consequences.<\/p>\n<p>Salary and expense data posted in spreadsheets on the website of Albania\u2019s Ministry of Finance show a wealth of details about the State Intelligence Service, including the locations of field offices, cash withdrawals, and minutiae such as the plumbers, technicians and mechanics they use.<\/p>\n<p>The records show the names and national identification card numbers of agents in the service, known locally and in the intelligence community as SHISH, operating inside Albania and abroad, including two with sensitive posts at NATO headquarters in Brussels.<\/p>\n<p>The spreadsheets disclose the names, positions, salaries and expenses of at least eight senior clandestine Albanian operatives \u2013 some working under diplomatic cover \u2013 in Belgium, Greece, Kosovo, Italy, Macedonia and Serbia.<\/p>\n<p>Read more at: https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/world\/europe\/albania-intelligence-data-posted-online-nato-defence-military-finance-security-a8672446.html<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The Independent By Borzou Daragahi Vincent Triest Albania, a Nato country, is posting sensitive information about its most senior intelligence operatives on the internet, making details about their identities, vehicles, operational roles, travel movements, and daily habits publicly available in what appears to be a major and potentially dangerous breach that could have international&hellip; 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