A member of the US National Security Agency’s elite hacking team has been charged with illegally removing top secret materials, in an embarrassing breach for the crucial electronic espionage body.
The Justice Department said Friday that Nghia Hoang Pho, 67, a 10-year veteran of the NSA’s Tailored Access Operations unit, which broke into computer systems, agreed to plead guilty to a single charge of removing and retaining top-secret documents from the agency.
He kept the material at his Ellicott City, Maryland home.
