Snowden persuaded other NSA workers to give up passwords: sources


WASHINGTON: Former US National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden used login credentials and passwords provided unwittingly by colleagues at a spy base in Hawaii to access some of the classified material he leaked to the media, sources said. 

A handful of agency employees who gave their login details to Snowden were identified, questioned and removed from their assignments, said a source close to several US government investigations into the damage caused by the leaks. 

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