A former National Security Agency contractor was sentenced in Maryland to nine years in prison on Friday for stealing huge amounts of classified material from U.S. intelligence agencies over two decades though officials never found proof he shared it with anyone. In what officials have called perhaps the biggest breach of U.S. classified information on record, Martin was accused of stealing from the NSA, CIA, U.S. Cyber Command and National Reconnaissance Office starting in 1996. The data he was accused of stealing included 2014 NSA reports detailing intelligence information "regarding foreign cyber issues" that contained targeting information and "foreign cyber intrusion techniques." One of their allegations was that Martin talked online with people in Russian and other languages but they never found proof he shared stolen information with anyone. Martin was working for Booz Allen Hamilton Holding Corp when he was taken into custody in 2016.

Source: Daily Mail July 20, 2019 02:33 UTC