Reverse Edward Snowden?
Via Fox News:
A former employee of the U.S. Department of Energy and U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission was busted in an FBI sting for allegedly attempting to set off a “spear fishing” cyber-attack to extract nuclear information from the agency for personal gain.
According to the indictment filed at the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia on April 23 and unsealed Friday, Charles Harvey Eccleston, 62, hatched a scheme in April 2013 to unleash a virus through dozens of DOE email accounts. As a result, he allegedly believed the damage done to protected computers would allow foreign government access to “sensitive and confidential information from the DOE computers.”
Eccleston, who was reportedly fired from the NRC in 2010, met and communicated with someone he thought was a representative of a foreign government, in hopes of being paid for his role in causing the damage and obtaining the access to the U.S. documents, according to the government. However, the person he met with was actually an FBI agent.