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Washington Post
4 days ago
- General
- Washington Post
DOD employee tried to leak classified information, prosecutors say
A computer scientist at the Defense Intelligence Agency who monitored insider threats became one himself, prosecutors alleged, attempting to trade classified information for citizenship in a friendly country because of disagreements with the Trump administration. Nathan Vilas Laatsch, 28, was arrested Thursday and charged with gathering defense information to aid a foreign government, an Espionage Act offense. He did not successfully establish contact with the nation, which is not identified in case filings, but court documents say he offered in an email to provide classified records.
Bloomberg
21-05-2025
- Business
- Bloomberg
Probe Found Security Lapses Led to US Contractor's Data Breach
A software company that handles sensitive data for nearly every US federal agency was the victim of a cyber breach earlier this year due to a "major lapse" in security measures, according to documents reviewed by Bloomberg News. Opexus, which is owned by the private equity firm Thoma Bravo and provides software services for processing US government records, was compromised in February by two employees who'd previously been convicted of hacking into the US State Department. The findings were detailed in separate reports by Opexus and an independent cybersecurity firm, which characterized the incident as an 'insider threat attack.'
