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title: NSA Contractor Arrested for Stolen Source Code - Wertheim Global
description: An NSA contractor was arrested by the FBI and investigated for possibly stealing secrets, the New York Times reported.
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# [NSA Contractor Arrested for Stolen Source Code - Wertheim Global](https://wertheimglobal.com/blog/nsa-contractor-arrested-stolen-source-code)

 Written by [Joshua Wertheim](https://wertheimglobal.com/blog/author/wertheim) | Oct 5, 2016 4:45:24 PM

The contractor is suspected of taking the highly classified “source code” developed by the agency to break into computer systems of adversaries like Russia, China, Iran and North Korea.

Like Edward Snowden, this contractor was employed by a third party consulting. It’s believed what he allegedly took from the NSA were hacking tools being built to access systems in countries hostile to the US.

The suspect, 51-year-old Harold Thomas Martin III of Glen Burnie, Maryland was reportedly found to have “highly classified information” and US government property “with an aggregate value in excess of $1,000,” in his home.

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[http://gizmodo.com/nsa-contractor-arrested-in-probe-of-stolen-source-code-1787445806](http://gizmodo.com/nsa-contractor-arrested-in-probe-of-stolen-source-code-1787445806)

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