The 2016 arrest of a former National Security Agency contractor charged with a massive theft of classified data began with an unlikely source: a tip from a Russian cybersecurity firm that the U.S. government has called a threat to the country. Moscow-based Kaspersky Lab turned Harold T. Martin III in to the NSA after receiving […]
NSA Contractor Stole 50 Terabytes of Information Over 20 Years…
A former NSA contractor is expected to plead guilty in what officials say may be the largest heist of intelligence data in U.S. history. On Wednesday, attorneys for Navy veteran Harold Martin filed a guilty plea to one count of willful retention of national defense information. Martin was arrested in august of 2016 when law […]
How Could NSA Contractor Harold Martin Have Been Taking Home Classified Info For 20 Years Without NSA Noticing?…
A few weeks back, we wrote about the arrest of Harold Martin, an NSA contractor working at Booz Allen, for apparently taking “highly classified information” from the NSA and storing it electronically and physically in his home…