For the second time in three years a contractor has been accused of taking secrets related to the agency’s surveillance programs Federal prosecutors said. Arrested was a National Security Agency contractor and was charged with stealing classified intelligence documents and digital files.
Authorities are investigating whether the contractor stole material concerning highly classified software and computer codes that the NSA uses to spy on computer networks in other countries.
The latest security breach suggests continued vulnerabilities at the NSA since Edward Snowden copied and gave to journalists more than 1 million highly classified documents and files on the agency’s electronic and digital surveillance programs at home and abroad.
The scope of the 2013 leaks forced the NSA to spend hundreds of millions of dollars to repair the damage, and prompted the White House and Congress to curtail some of the NSA’s domestic spying operations.
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