Security News > 2020 > July > Raytheon techie who took home radar secrets gets 18 months in the clink in surprise time fraud probe twist

Uncle Sam said Serageldin copied as many as 31,000 pages of classified documents and took them home using a portable Western Digital hard drive, hardware he denied owning.

Interestingly, the case did not begin with a focus on Serageldin's retention of confidential information, but rather on time card fraud.

Don't mess with HR. Back in 2017, Raytheon suspected Serageldin had been taking off every Friday from January through March of that year yet recorded those days as time worked.

It only got worse from there for Serageldin, as during a probe into the suspected time fraud, Raytheon investigators discovered from network history logs he had downloaded documents to an external drive against company policy.

"While Mr Serageldin's actions were wrong and foolish, he did not betray his country or sabotage his important work for Raytheon," Serageldin's team told the court.

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