Security News > 2022 > April > National Security Agency employee indicted for leaking top secret info

The United States Department of Justice has revealed it has indicted a National Security Agency employee for sharing top secret national security information with an unnamed person who worked in the private sector.

According to a DoJ announcement and the indictment, an NSA staffer named Mark Unkenholz "Held a TOP SECRET/Sensitive Compartmented Information clearance and had lawful access to classified information relating to the national defense."

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.

The DoJ states that RF had a TOP SECRET/SCI clearance from April 2016 until approximately June 2019 when she worked for an entity the indictment calls "Company 1".

The indictment's timeline claims that Unkenholz sent material to RF when she was at Company 1 and at Company 2 - so it seems RF's clearance was not sufficient to read some of the info she was sent while working at Company 1.

Unkenholz sent information with his personal email 13 times.

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https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2022/04/01/nsa_employee_secret_data_leak/