A former National Security Agency (NSA) employee entered a guilty plea to charges of trying to send Russia confidential defense material.
From June 6, 2022, to July 1, 2022, Jareh Sebastian Dalke, 31, worked for the National Security Agency (NSA) as an information systems security designer. He was authorized to view classified material with Top Secret clearance. Over a year has passed since his arrest before the most recent development.
“Dalke admitted that between August and September 2022, in order to demonstrate both his ‘legitimate access and willingness to share,’ he used an encrypted email account to transmit excerpts of three classified documents to an individual he believed to be a Russian agent,” the United States Department of Justice (DoJ) stated read more Ex-NSA Employee Pleads Guilty to Leaking Classified Data to Russia.
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