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June 28, 2013

Retired U.S. General Under Investigation for Stuxnet Leaks 
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A former top-ranking Pentagon general is reportedly under investigation
for leaking the information that publicly exposed a U.S. cyberwarfare
operation against Iran. NBC News reports retired Marine General James
"Hoss" Cartwright, the former vice chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff,
has been notified of a Justice Department probe into whether he leaked
information to The New York Times on the computer virus known as
Stuxnet. The United States used Stuxnet to sabotage the systems at
Iran's nuclear facilities, but in doing so accidentally set off a
computer worm across the global Internet. Cartwright retired from the
military in August 2011.

 

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