IDF officials revealed Sunday that a female soldier has been indicted for stealing a disc on key that held top-secret National Security Institute files, including classified information on Iran. The soldier argues that she took the disc in order to draw attention to the vulnerability of secret data.
IDF investigators agree that the soldier did not intend to give the data to Israel's enemies, or to any person not authorized to view them. She will be charged with violating security protocol and endangering state security.
Her trial will be held in the Southern District Military Court in the upcoming months.
The soldier has stated that she took the disc home in order to prove that IDF protocol was being ignored, and that classified data was at risk. She stole it after discovering that it had been used to store state secrets in violation of military rules, but never looked at the files it contained, she said.
Her superiors discovered that the disc was missing shortly after she stole it and confronted her immediately. She confessed to the crime.
In April, it was revealed that former IDF soldier Anat Kam had illegally copied several thousands of classified IDF documents and given them to Haaretz reporter Uri Blau. Kam has been charged with revealing classified information to a non-authorized source in a deliberate attempt to harm state security. She remains under house arrest.