Leak operation leaders fall into FBI trap
A US Navy nuclear engineer and his wife have been arrested for allegedly forming a plot to sell classified information on the design of nuclear-powered warships to a foreign government in violation of nuclear energy law.
The foreign government representative turned out to be an undercover FBI agent, so all efforts on the part of the detainees to run the operation as securely and unnoticed as possible, exchanging encrypted information via emails and SD cards hidden in butter sandwiches and packets of chewing gum, were in vain.
References:
- 08/10/2021 justice.gov Criminal complaint
- 10/10/2021 elpais.com El traidor que pasaba información en un sándwich de mantequilla de cacahuete
- 11/10/2021 bleepingcomputer.com Nuclear engineer's espionage plans unraveled by undercover FBI agent
- 11/10/2021 europapress.es Detienen a un ingeniero nuclear de la Armada de EEUU y su mujer por vender secretos de submarinos nucleares