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U.S. NSA contractor arrested for alleged classified code theft: report

Xinhua, October 6, 2016 Adjust font size:

A U.S. National Security Agency contractor (NSA) who worked for the same company as whistleblower Edward Snowden was secretly arrested in recent weeks for the alleged theft and disclosure of highly classified computer codes developed to hack foreign government networks, The New York Times reported Wednesday.

The unnamed contractor worked for the consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton and was suspected of taking the highly classified "source code" developed by the agency to break into computer systems of adversaries like Russia, China, Iran and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, the report said.

But some of the information the contractor is suspected of taking was dated, it quoted two government officials as saying.

In 2013, Snowden copied and leaked classified information from the NSA, exposing the U.S. agency's surveillance programs in the United States and abroad. Endit