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    NSA's hacking tools found among data stolen by contractor

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    Mariella Moon
    Mariella Moon
    10.20.2016

    The feds quietly arrested NSA contractor Harold Thomas Martin III back in August for stealing an enormous number of documents from the agency. Now, the investigators sifting through the documents found in his computers discovered what they were probably looking for from the start. According to the New York Times, the documents he stole included the NSA's top secret hacking tools posted online by a group called Shadow Brokers earlier this year. Federal agents had to pore over terabytes upon terabytes of data to find those tools, since the classified materials found in Martin's possession make the Panama Papers (2.6 terabytes) and Edward Snowden's documents look insignificant in comparison.