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2019: Martin pled guilty of theft of data of the NSA and agreed for 9 years of prison
On March 28, 2019 Harold Martin pled guilty of theft of a trade secret at the American National Security Agency (NSA) during work in it.
The ex-employee of the NSA went to the transaction with prosecutors: he agreed to be a convict for nine years of imprisonment in exchange on removal of a part of charges. The final sentence will be announced in July, 2019.
It is expected that to Martin will reckon 2.5 years which he spent behind bars waiting for court. The defendant will be able to submit the petition for parole in three years.
To Harold Martinu who stole about 50 Tbyte of confidential and top secret state data (among them — a set of tools for espionage), initially brought 20 charges. It admitted the guilt only on one of them.
According to protection, Martin did not give the classified information to the third parties, and just stored them at himself, "to improve the computer knowledge". He suffers from passion to collecting and studying of information, and took documents home to improve the skills as employee of intelligence agencies, lawyers said.
The correspondent of NPR Carrie Johnson who was present at judicial listening, notes that Harold Martin took away home a huge number of documentation which he could never study completely. FBI found the most part of materials in the locked shed near Martin's house.
Martin is also accused of stealing of data of the NSA, "the transactions of the USA concerning confidential planning against world terrorism", the latest stolen data for 2016 were on "discussion of opportunities and spaces in capacity to act of the American military".
The strategist on security of ObserveIT Sai Chavali says that cybersecurity specialists, like Martin, are not considered as threats, but they are capable to do huge harm, having stolen data.[1]
Earlier other former employee of the NSA Edward Snowden transferred to journalists documents in which it was told about the program of the American intelligence agencies for shadowing both for citizens of the USA, and for people outside the country. After he fled the USA, and then was granted asylum in Russia. In the USA threatens Snowden up to 30 years of prison.
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