Jareh Dalke, a former Nationwide Safety Company (NSA) worker, has been charged with trying to transmit nationwide safety data to a international nation. Dalke, a resident of Colorado Springs, Colo., was arrested Thursday.
In accordance with the felony grievance, Dalke spoke on-line with an undercover FBI agent over the summer time. He allegedly despatched excerpts from three categorized paperwork and one whole categorized doc in trade for cost in cryptocurrency.
Investigators wrote that Dalke believed he was exchanging the data with an affiliate from a international nation "with many pursuits which might be adversarial to america."
On the finish of July 2022, Dalke started speaking with the individual he thought labored for a international authorities. He wrote that he "just lately realized that my heritage ties again to your nation, which is a part of why I've come to you versus others."
He advised the undercover FBI worker that he had utilized to work on the NSA as a result of he "questioned our function in harm to the world previously and by combination of curiosity for secrets and techniques and a need to trigger change."
Dalke allegedly divulged to his contact that he had "exfiltrated some data that's of a really excessive degree," describing it as referring to international focusing on of U.S. methods and data on cyber operations. He later added that he wanted cash.
On Aug. 6, Dalke transferred the paperwork. One excerpt was a canopy web page of a menace evaluation of the international authorities's army offensive capabilities. One other associated to a authorities company's pc programming, and the third was a menace evaluation of U.S. defensive capabilities partially associated to the international authorities. These paperwork, in line with inside NSA data, had been printed on June 17, June 22 and June 23. NSA methods present Dalke was the one NSA worker to print out the paperwork in query on the time.
Dalke has a background in cybersecurity, and his resume, in line with the grievance, reveals he's proficient in Russian and Spanish. He served within the Military from 2015-2018 and began working as a civilian NSA worker in June, 2022, serving in that function solely till July 1, 2022.
He was a safety designer at an NSA facility within the Washington, D.C., space and bought a top-secret safety clearance, in addition to Delicate Compartmented Data entry.
Dalke submitted his resignation to the NSA on June 28, 2022, citing household sickness.
On Aug. 10, Dalke is accused of writing to the spy that he was sending one other doc associated to the international authorities's chief as a "present of fine religion," including he was "keen to supply full paperwork with out reservation." This doc had a SECRET//NOFORN clearance degree.
A day later, he allegedly utilized for an exterior job at NSA and later transmitted the paperwork and accepted the crypto cost — he requested $85,000 in return for all the data in his possession and advised the spy he'd be keen to proceed to supply extra data for future funds, since he was in vital debt.
As just lately as this previous Sunday, Dalke and an unnamed resident traveled to an Ikea in Centennial, Colo., the place they gave the impression to be scouting places to drop extra data a day in the past, on Wednesday.
Dalke appeared in court docket Thursday afternoon. He'll stay detained forward of a listening to subsequent week. His public defenders didn't instantly reply to CBS Information' request for remark.