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Former GCHQ intern admits top secret data breach risking national security

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Feed Name: DataBreaches.Net

Threat Score
72/100

Date Published: 2025-03-31

Date Updated: 2026-04-19

Author: Dissent

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A former GCHQ intern, Hasaan Arshad, admitted to unlawfully transferring top-secret data by connecting a work phone to a secure workstation at GCHQ on August 24, 2022, then moving the sensitive information to his personal devices, an act that risked national security, according to reporting by [The Argus](https://www.theargus.co.uk/news/national/25050508.former-gchq-intern-admits-top-secret-data-breach-risking-national-security/).

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