A former National Security Agency contractor has committed theft containing various top secret government information. He took more than enough highly classified material to fill 200 laptop computers.
According to TopTech News, The Justice Department it anticipated bringing additional charges to former National Security Agency contractor Harold T. Martin III. The charges against the former National Security Agency contractor includes Espionage Act, which would expose himself to more severe punishments and penalties if convicted.
The court papers presented new evidence and details against the former National Security Agency contractor which the court believes Harold T. Martin III stole. This also reveals that the former National Security Agency contractor is also in contact with a certain foreign government.
Prosecutor said that the former National Security Agency contractor had an online communication using the Russian language. This also means that if the former National Security Agency contractor were to be set free, he would seek refuge in a government willing to shielding him from facing justice.
The former National Security Agency contractor, Harold T. Martin III was arrested at his home in Maryland back in August 2016 the same time federal officials acknowledged an investigation into a cyber leak that the National Security Agency is using. The documents were leaked by some group which calls themselves "Shadow Brokers".
Prosecutors said they found important classified government materials from 1996 to 2016 and 50 terabytes of information enough for 200 laptops when they searched the former National Security Agency contractor's home and car. There was even one document marked "Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information".
To add, Greensburg Daily News shared that the evidence is considered overwhelming that the Defendant abused this trust and chose to repeatedly violate his agreements and the law according to prosecutors. The arrest of the former National Security Agency contractor, Harold T. Martin III was a further blow to the NSA coming three years after Edward Snowden disclosed government surveillance program.
