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Former GCHQ intern admits top secret data breach risking national security

Posted on March 31, 2025 by Dissent

Here’s today’s reminder of the insider threat (well, this, and the fact that U.S. government officials continue to deny any problem with discussing attack plans on Signal). The Argus reports:

A former GCHQ intern has admitted risking national security by taking top secret data home.

Hasaan Arshad, 25, from Rochdale, Greater Manchester, pleaded guilty to an offence under the Computer Misuse Act on what would have been the first day of his Old Bailey trial.

The charge related to doing an unauthorised act which risked damaging national security.

On August 24 2022 he took his work mobile phone into a top secret area of GCHQ and connected the device to a top secret work station, it was alleged. He then transferred sensitive data from a secure, top secret computer to the phone before taking it home, it was claimed. Arshad then transferred the data from the phone to a hard drive connected to his personal home computer.

Read more at The Argus.

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