Thursday, March 28, 2019

Former NSA Contractor Pleads Guilty To The Largest Security Breach In U.S. History

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NBC: Ex-NSA contractor pleads guilty in largest theft of secrets ever

The Maryland resident amassed the classified material during 23 years at the agency and investigators have struggled to figure out why he did it.

WASHINGTON — A former contractor for the National Security Agency, the federal government's super-secret codebreaker, pleaded guilty Thursday to charges that he stole and held onto classified government secrets.

Harold Martin of Glen Burnie, Maryland, entered a guilty plea in a Baltimore federal courtroom. When he was arrested in 2016, investigators said thousands of secret and top-secret documents in printed and digital form were found in his house and car.

After Thursday's hearing, his defense lawyers said Martin's actions "were the product of mental illness, not treason."

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WNU Editor: He worked at the place for 23 years. I can only imagine how much data he was exposed to, and what he took.

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4 comments:

  1. AnonymousMarch 29, 2019 at 9:23 AM

    One of many.

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  2. Hans PerssonMarch 29, 2019 at 9:44 AM

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  3. Hans PerssonMarch 29, 2019 at 9:45 AM

    Well, he did not sell the information to a third-party, he just wanted the information at home... I can actually understand that, even if its wrong.

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  4. AnonymousMarch 29, 2019 at 5:59 PM

    There was a leak that go into public. It was no just storing information at home.

    "While attempting to trace the source of the Shadow Brokers leak in the summer of 2016, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) was alerted by the NSA to an internet post made by Martin, who allegedly communicated via the Twitter account @HAL_999999999."

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_T._Martin_III

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shadow_Brokers

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