The FBI has secretly busted only about other National Security Agency (NSA) contractor over a massive surreptitious information theft.
The US Justice Department charged Harold Thomas Martin, 51, alongside theft of highly classified authorities material, including "source codes" developed past times the NSA to hack unusual government, according to a courtroom complaint (PDF) unsealed on Wednesday.
According to the DoJ's main national safety prosecutor John Carlin, Martin was employed past times Booz Allen Hamilton, the same consulting theatre that employed whistleblower Edward J. Snowden when he disclosed the global surveillance conducted past times the NSA.
Currently, the FBI is investigating whether Martin stole in addition to leaked highly classified figurer origin codes developed to hack into the networks of Russia, China, Iran, Democratic People's South Korea in addition to other US adversaries, the New York Times reports.
If stolen, this would live on the 2nd fourth dimension inwards final iii years when someone alongside access to surreptitious information was able to swipe NSA's classified information.
Now hiding out inwards Russian embassy, Snowden responded to the arrest on Twitter, saying: "This is huge. Did the FBI secretly arrest the individual behind the reports NSA sat on huge flaws inwards US products?"
Martin was arrested afterward a search of his home, garage, in addition to vehicle inwards Glen Burnie, Maryland on August 27, according to the indictment.
"A large percent of the materials recovered from Martin's residence in addition to vehicle bore markings indicating that they were the belongings of the US in addition to contained highly classified information of the United States," FBI Special Agent Jeremy Bucalo writes.The indictment likewise says feds constitute both digital equally good equally difficult re-create cloth that clearly marked equally highly classified documents in addition to belongings of the US government.
If convicted, Martin faces upward to ten years inwards prison.
