Security News > 2020 > June > Former DIA Analyst Sentenced to Prison Over Data Leak

A former analyst for the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency has been sentenced to more than two years in prison after sharing highly classified, national defense intelligence with two reporters.

According to the Department of Justice on Thursday, Frese held a "Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information" security clearance at the DIA. He leveraged these privileges to search for the classified data - stored in secure, classified government information systems - at least 30 times in 2018.

Earlier in May, a former BlueLinx IT manager was sentenced to federal prison for hacking his former Atlanta-based employer and sabotaging their internal communications network, causing more than $800,000 in damage.

According to the report, the CIA lacked the appropriate tools for blocking insider threats - systems with sensitive data were not equipped with user activity monitoring and historical data was available to users indefinitely.

Security experts say that insider threats are particularly important to governments, particularly with whistleblower incidents like Edward Snowden and Chelsea Manning resulting in sensitive organization data being leaked.

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