FORT MEADE, Md. — The recent leak of National Security Agency hacking exploits appears to have been caused by Microsoft’s helpful office assistant, Clippy, according to current and former employees of the secretive organization.

“It all happened so fast,” Army Lt. Toby Reynolds reportedly told superiors. “I was about to log off for the day when Clippy popped up and said ‘It looks like you're trying to establish a backdoor to revisit later. Would you like to save your top secret work to the cloud?’”

“I fat-fingered the keys and hit ‘Enter’ instead of ‘Tab,’ and here we are.”