A Maryland man who worked as a contractor for the NSA has been
arrested for allegedly stealing classified material that was later found
in his home and car, U.S. officials said Wednesday.
Navy veteran Harold Thomas Martin III, who had a
top secret national security clearance, was arrested on Aug. 27 and is
still in custody, according to the Justice Department. His attorneys
said there is no evidence he "intended to betray his country."
Martin, 51, was employed by Booz Allen Hamilton,
the same the same firm where NSA leaker Edward Snowden was a contractor
when he took a huge cache of classified documents and fled the United
States in 2013.
The FBI learned about the insider breach in
mid-August, when a group calling itself The Shadow Brokers offered to
sell NSA hacking tools and other secrets for $500 million, officials
told NBC News. Martin and The Shadow Brokers had some of the same
materials, according to officials.
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