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GCHQ Intern Jailed over Data Breach Which Risked 17 Colleagues
- Hasaan Arshad, a 25-year-old GCHQ intern from Rochdale, was jailed for seven and a half years for unlawfully removing top secret data on August 24, 2022, at the secure GCHQ site near Cheltenham.
- Arshad took the data home on a removable hard drive without authorisation, citing curiosity and a desire to complete an important project during his placement with a technical development team.
- His actions compromised national security, risking exposure of 17 GCHQ colleagues, destroying thousands of hours of work, undermining trust, and affecting lawful intelligence operations.
- Prosecutor Duncan Atkinson stated the breach created a significant risk to national security since hostile actors knowing GCHQ methods could thwart UK intelligence gathering.
- The sentencing judge, Mrs Justice McGowan, characterized Arshad as exhibiting intellectual arrogance and noted that his violation led to substantial financial damage and endangered the safety of intelligence personnel, resulting in a six-year sentence for the data breach along with additional imprisonment for sexual offence convictions.
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Wilts & Gloucestershire StandardGCHQ intern took top secret data home, court told
A GCHQ intern endangered national security, risked exposing 17 colleagues, and “threw away” thousands of hours of work when he took Top Secret data home, a court has heard.
·Stroud, United Kingdom
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GCHQ intern who downloaded secrets and names of spies onto phone learns fate - The Mirror
Hasaan Arshad, 25, was found to be in 'flagrant breach' of tight security rules when he used his mobile phone to remove material from a computer system during his GCHQ internship
·London, United Kingdom
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