Report: Snowden Used NSA Employees' Passwords to Leak Secrets

Former NSA defense contractor Edward Snowden gained access to classified material by convincing some former colleagues to share their passwords with him, according to a Reuters exclusive report published Thursday.

Citing unnamed sources, the report states that Snowden informed NSA employees he needed their passwords in order to perform his computer systems administrator job.

The subterfuge reportedly occurred when Snowden was working at an NSA base in Hawaii. The cited sources said Snowden may have persuaded 20 to 25 fellow employees to give up their passwords, and that those employees were later questioned and "removed from their assignments." Read more...