Snowden used others' passwords to access documents
US investigators say former intelligence contractor Edward Snowden used login credentials and passwords of some fellow workers to access the classified material he later leaked to the media.
Sources close to a number of US government investigations have said Snowden persuaded fellow workers at a US National Security Agency spy base in Hawaii to give him their logins and passwords, Reuters reported on Thursday.
The sources said Snowden had told the colleagues he needed the requested information as a computer systems administrator.
The spy agency employees who gave their login details to Snowden were identified, questioned and removed from their jobs.