Passport files of 3 candidates breached

THE passport files of all three US presidential candidates — Senators Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and John McCain — have been breached, the US State Department confirmed yesterday.

A State Department spokesman Sean McCormack said the breaches of McCain and Clinton’s passport files were not discovered until yesterday, after officials became aware of the privacy violation regarding Obama’s records, and a separate search was conducted.

Last night it emerged that the two contractors fired for snooping into Obama’s passport records worked for a Virginia-based company called Stanley Inc.