Yes, the NSA managed to arrest him data thief with her help Kaspersky Lab: For 20 years, the NSA's outside partner illegally collected documents and files containing classified information in his home.
According to one Publication of Politico, Harold Martin was arrested in 2016 when the information was leaked to Kaspersky Lab.
The data found its way to her Russia through the company's antivirus, which detected the hacking tools by the NSA as malware. So as a decent antivirus he sent them to the Russian company.
The former NSA employee, although arrested in 2016, was convicted a year later of stealing confidential government documents and software. In early 2018, he stated that he intends to plead guilty to only one of the charges.
Kaspersky, meanwhile, has been described as persona non grata by US government which it claims acts as a backdoor for the Kremlin. Kaspersky has of course denied all the accusations for which it claims there is no public evidence data.
Perhaps these latest revelations will help the security company get back on track markets of the United States.
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