U.S. Government Employee Arrested for Attempting to Provide Classified Information to Foreign Government

A U.S. government employee, an IT specialist working for the Insider Threat Division of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), has been arrested for attempting to transmit national defense information to an agent or officer of a foreign government. The arrest took place today, highlighting the risk of insider threats. The technical details and real impacts of this attempted disclosure were not specified in the Department of Justice's press release.