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US government snitch-finder pleads guilty to leaking state secrets to foreign spies

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Feed Name: DataBreaches.Net

Threat Score
50/100

Date Published: 2026-08-30

Date Updated: 2026-08-31

Author: Dissent

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Connor Jones reports that Nathan Vilas Laatsch, a former Defense Intelligence Agency civilian IT specialist with top-secret clearance, pleaded guilty after an FBI sting in which an undercover agent caught him attempting to transmit classified intelligence to a friendly foreign government; he was arrested in May 2025 after offering to transfer classified packages in March 2025.

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