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FBI Arrests NSA Contractor for Leaking Secrets Here’s How they Caught Her

Reality Winner, 25, was arrested on Saturday (3rd June) for leaking classified information to an online news outlet. The Intercept published a report on Monday, 5th June, based upon a classified document it received anonymously, which claims in August 2016, Russia’s military intelligence agency attempted to break into a Florida company that sells voting registration equipment used in the 2016 US presidential election. Winner is facing a count of “gathering, transmitting or losing defence information,” and up to 10 years behind bars if she is convicted.

Source: https://thehackernews.com/2017/06/nsa-russian-hacking-leak.html

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