Former NSA employee sentenced to 66 months for taking home classified info
Former National Security Agency employee Nghia H. Pho was sentenced to 66 months in prison Tuesday for taking home highly classified NSA hacking tools between 2010 and 2015, some of which were later released to the public. Pho pleaded guilty in December to one count of removal and retention of national defense information. The government was seeking a sentence of 96 months. Pho appeared Tuesday in U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland for the sentencing. The case marks the third instance in the past three years in which a NSA employee or contractor had been charged with mishandling classified information. In October 2016, it was revealed that an NSA contractor, Harold Martin, had approximately 50 terabytes worth of classified data in his Maryland home. It was reported in January that Martin would plead guilty, but no plea has been entered. Another contractor, Reality Winner, was arrested after leaking a classified […]
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