A contractor who worked for the same cyberoperations firm as infamous leaker Edward Snowden was secretly arrested by the FBI in recent weeks in connection with the theft of highly classified hacking codes from the National Security Agency, the U.S. Department of Justice announced on Wednesday.
Thomas Martin III, 51, was arrested on Aug. 27, according to a complaint that was unsealed Wednesday. The Glen Burnie, Md., resident was charged with theft of government property and and unauthorized removal and retention of classified materials by a government employee or contractor.
Martin worked for consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton and is suspected of stealing “source code” used to break into computer systems of numerous U.S. rivals, such as China, Iran, Russia and North Korea, according to The New York Times. Some of the information allegedly stolen by the contractor may have been dated, two officials told The Times.
Martin had his initial court appearance on Aug. 29 and is still detained, a DOJ press release stated.
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