NSA Employee Indicted for ‘Leaking Top Secret Info’ To a Woman

Recently, the United States Department of Justice (DoJ) has claimed that an NSA employee has been sharing highly sensitive data of national security with an individual who allegedly is a private sector employee. 

According to a DoJ announcement and the indictment, an NSA staffer named Mark Unkenholz “held a TOP SECRET/Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI) clearance and had lawful access to classified information relating to the national defense.” 

The indictment has been unleashed on Thursday in U.S. District Court in Baltimore, which has accused Mark Unkenholz, 60 years old employee of the NSA office that engages with private industry, sent 13 unauthorized emails to the woman who was referred to as “RF” from February 2018 to June 2020, each email was containing top secret information relating to national defense. 

Following the incident, the court said that “reason to believe [the info] could be used to the injury of the United States or to the advantage of any foreign nation.” Further, the justice departs reported that the RF also had a TOP SECRET/SCI clearance from April 2016 until approximately June 2019 through the company she was working for which was named Company 1, however when she switched the company 1 to company 2 her clearance lapsed. 

According to the indictment’s timeline, Unkenholz sent the files to RF when she was working at C

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