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alp227

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Thu Oct 6, 2016, 02:15 PM Oct 2016

NSA contractor charged with stealing top secret data

Source: Washington Post

BOSTON — A federal contractor suspected in the leak of powerful National Security Agency hacking tools has been arrested and charged with stealing classified information from the U.S. government, according to court records and U.S. officials familiar with the case.

Harold Thomas Martin III, 51, who did technology work for Booz Allen Hamilton, was charged with theft of government property and unauthorized removal and retention of classified materials, authorities said. According to two U.S. officials familiar with the case, he is suspected of “hoarding” classified materials going back as far as a decade in his house and car, and the recent leak of the hacking tools tipped investigators to what he was doing.

Martin was arrested in August after investigators raided his home in Glen Burnie, Md., and found documents and digital information stored on various devices that contained highly classified information, authorities said.

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/government-contractor-arrested-for-stealing-top-secret-data/2016/10/05/99eeb62a-8b19-11e6-875e-2c1bfe943b66_story.html

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NSA contractor charged with stealing top secret data (Original Post) alp227 Oct 2016 OP
A Snowden wanna-be, same company too. Only difference is Snowden didn't get caught. brush Oct 2016 #1
Nailed Petraeus with the second charge. Congress tried to get Hillary on the second one, too. ancianita Oct 2016 #2

ancianita

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2. Nailed Petraeus with the second charge. Congress tried to get Hillary on the second one, too.
Thu Oct 6, 2016, 05:17 PM
Oct 2016

The first charge is a fine of $250,000 and ten years.

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