{"id":46009,"date":"2022-04-01T05:33:33","date_gmt":"2022-04-01T05:33:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/national-security-agency-employee-indicted-for-leaking-top-secret-info\/"},"modified":"2022-04-01T05:33:33","modified_gmt":"2022-04-01T05:33:33","slug":"national-security-agency-employee-indicted-for-leaking-top-secret-info","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/national-security-agency-employee-indicted-for-leaking-top-secret-info\/","title":{"rendered":"National Security Agency employee indicted for ‘leaking top secret info’"},"content":{"rendered":"

The United States Department of Justice (DoJ) has accused an NSA employee of sharing top-secret national security information with an unnamed person who worked in the private sector.<\/p>\n

According to a DoJ announcement<\/a> and the indictment<\/a>, an NSA staffer named Mark Unkenholz “held a TOP SECRET\/Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI) clearance and had lawful access to classified information relating to the national defense.”<\/p>\n

The indictment alleges that on 13 occasions between 2018 and 2020, Unkenholz shared some of that information with a woman identified only as “RF” who was not entitled to see it. Unkenholz did so despite allegedly having “reason to believe [the info] could be used to the injury of the United States or to the advantage of any foreign nation.”<\/p>\n