Yes, the NSA managed to arrest him data thief with the help of Kaspersky Lab: The NSA's external partner collected for 20 years illegally on home of, documents and files that contained confidential information.
According to one Publication of Politico, Harold Martin was arrested in 2016 when they leaked this information to Kaspersky Lab.
The data found its way to her Russia through the company's antivirus, which detected the NSA's hacking tools 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 return to US markets.
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