US Navy Data Breach (2013)

Robin Patterson, the Navy's public liaison, oversees the sea service's responses to Freedom of Information Act requests from reporters and private citizens seeking Navy records and data. But part of an email leaked today on social media suggests Patterson took one reporter's request and tried mightily to avoid gathering and releasing much of the info that journalist sought. And Patterson accidentally sent those notes to Scott MacFarlane, the investigative reporter for NBC 4-TV in Washington who made the request.