- Snowden gathered the usernames and passwords of between 20 and 25 fellow workers at the NSA regional operations center in Hawaii, telling them they were needed for him to do his job as a computer systems administrator, and then used them to access classified material he leaked to reporters (reuters) http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/11/08/net-us-usa-security-snowden-idusbre9a703020131108 7 comments worldnews