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US Charges NSA Contractor Over Leak of Russia Hacking Report

Reality Leigh Winner, 25, of Augusta, Georgia, has been charged with leaking classified material to the press. Winner is accused of using her top secret clearance to access and download a report, which she later printed, and removed from NSA headquarters. The Intercept published a story titled “Top-Secret NSA Report Details Russian Hacking Effort Days Before 2016 Election”” The report says Russia’s General Staff Main Intelligence Directorate (GRU) is behind the spear-phishing campaign

Source: security

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