UK: 7 Years Imprisonment For Stealing Sensitive Data To Intelligence Agency
Hassan Arshad, 25, has been sentenced to seven years 6 months in prison for transferring sensitive and secret data to his home in the UK intelligence agency GCHQ.
Hassan Arshad has confessed to the crime under the Computer Miss Jose Act.
Hassan Arshad was alleged to have transferred the most confidential information from the GCHQ’s secure system on August 24, 2022 to the personal computer, which included not only data related to his own project, but also included the codes of other teams and the real names of employees.
During the trial in London’s Old Bailey court, Justice Moura McGovin said in his remarks that Arshad had endangered national security.
According to British media, the court said in its remarks that Hassan Arshad had put the lives of intelligence personnel at stake and wasted thousands of hours of hard work and national resources.
The court has termed it a “very serious and dangerous” move. According to the prosecution, Arshad posed this data without permission to “significant threat” to national security.
The Fazal Judge said that if this information went into the wrong hands, it could have had disastrous consequences.
Hassan Arshad was allowed to work on intelligence tools and techniques during the annual internship in GCHQ and he also signed the Official Secrets Act under office rules.
Nevertheless, they ignored security rules and took sensitive information home.
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