Sentences with phrase «intelligence documents leaked»

The Guardian first published stories based on intelligence documents leaked to the newspaper by Snowden, a former US National Security Agency (NSA) contractor, in 2013.

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Former intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning, who leaked hundreds of thousands of documents to Wikileaks, has no regrets about her actions, even after serving seven years in prison.

Bradley Birkenfeld, who CNBC describes as «the most significant financial whistleblower of all time,» suspects that the U.S. government's intelligence service is responsible for leaking the Panama Papers — a collection of more than 11 million confidential documents with detailed information about offshore companies.

The NSA document — which the Justice Department says was stolen and leaked to The Intercept by a 25 - year - old government contractor from Georgia — concluded that «Russian intelligence obtained and maintained access to elements of multiple US state or local electoral boards» in the days leading up to the election.

And according to a top - secret National Security Agency document leaked to the Intercept and published earlier this month, hackers associated with Russia's military intelligence agency targeted a company with information on US voting software days before the election and used the data to launch «voter - registration - themed» cyberattacks on local government officials.

The report was bolstered by a leaked NSA document published by The Intercept earlier this month detailing how hackers connected to Russian military intelligence had attempted to breach US voting systems days before the election.

In December 2014, Korea Hydro and Nuclear Power's internal documents — such as its building blueprints and documents from the Blue House, Ministry of Defense, and National Intelligence Service — were leaked to the public by North Korean hackers, as determined by the Government Combined Investigation Unit on Personal Information Crime based on the analysis of malware and the IP addresses involved in the breach.

The former intelligence contractor intentionally leaked numerous documents to the outlets, that then made the public aware of the government's seizure of private communications records and correspondence.

The documents reveal how the National Security Agency leaked intelligence information, directed covert operations within Nicaragua to influence U.S. public opinion, and developed other elaborate programs for the diplomacy office to help the Reagan administration persuade Congress to renew contra aid.

Apple, Nokia and Research In Motion (RIM) gave Indian intelligence agencies secret access to encrypted smartphone communications as the price of doing business in the country, according to what appear to be leaked Indian government documents.

PREVIOUS, JUNE 2 AM: Oliver Stone and his producing partner Moritz Borman have thrown their hats in the ring and will make a movie about Edward Snowden, the former systems administrator for the CIA and a counterintelligence trainer at the Defense Intelligence Agency who later worked for the National Security Agency and then made public thousands of classified documents, an act which has been called the most significant leak in U.S. history since the release of the Pentagon Papers by Daniel Ellsberg.

The documents leaked by Snowden were examples of America's intelligence agencies and other countries equivalent unlawful mass surveillance, including political, industrial and counter-terrorism espionage that the public were unaware of.

The former military intelligence analyst accused of leaking hundreds of thousands of documents to WikiLeaks has spent the last four days in a Maryland military court, undergoing a hearing to determine whether or not his case will proceed to court - martial.

While snatching politically sensitive documents as part of an espionage plot might be part of statecraft and intelligence efforts (rightly or wrongly), Motherboard's Rid points out that leaking those documents (and potentially manipulated ones) to a global audience represents an unprecedented and dangerous attempt by a foreign government that is openly hostile to U.S. policies and interests.