Thousands of Australian government files, some of them marked “top secret”, have been discovered in a pair of discarded filing cabinets purchased at a second-hand shop in Canberra.
ABC News reports that the locked filing cabinets were purchased for “small change” at the store in the Australian capital. Since there were no keys for the cabinet, the new owners, who have not been identified, used a drill to remove the locks - and discovered the files inside.
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