US says document leak poses ‘serious’ security risk

US says document leak poses ‘serious’ security risk

The leak of highly sensitive US documents — many of them related to the Ukraine conflict — presents a “very serious” risk to US national security, the Pentagon said Monday.

The breach is being investigated by the Justice Department and appears to include secret information on the war in Ukraine as well as sensitive analyses of US allies, whom American officials are now seeking to reassure.

A steady drip of dozens of photographs of documents have been found on Twitter, Telegram, Discord and other sites in recent days, though some may have circulated online for weeks, if not months, before they began to receive media attention last week.

The documents circulating online pose “a very serious risk to national security and have the potential to spread disinformation,” said Chris Meagher, assistant to the secretary of defense for public affairs, without confirming their authenticity.বিস্তারিত

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