Following a year-long operation by undercover FBI agents, a Maryland couple has been arrested and charged with attempting to sell US nuclear secrets to another country in exchange for cryptocurrency.
US Navy nuclear engineer Jonathan Toebbe, who held a top-secret security clearance, and his wife Diana were arrested Saturday in West Virginia by the FBI and Naval Criminal Investigative Service after the couple allegedly sold information concerning the design of nuclear-powered US warships"to a person they believed was a representative of a foreign power but was actually an undercover FBI agent," according to a Department of Justice statement.
" In an email cited in the complaisnt, Toebbe allegedly said he would deliver an SD card, containing several hundred pages of technical data. Once he confirmed receipt of the cryptocurrency, Toebbe allegedly wrote,"I will give you the passphrase."Toebbe also allegedly told the agent he would never use"the same drop location twice. I will give you a new Monero address each time. The decryption key will be different each time. No patterns for third parties to observe.
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