You have to wonder about the NSA. This bloke managed to snaffle 50Tb without being caught.

Their network operations centre actually phoned Ed Snowden in Hawaii to ask him if he needed more bandwidth because he was downloading so much data.

Some "security" agency!



The Justice Department alleges Harold Thomas Martin III stole 50TB of data, including materials that were marked "Secret" and "Top Secret."


Back on Aug. 27, National Security Agency contractor Harold Thomas Martin III was arrested on charges of confidential information theft. Initially investigators found six classified documents in Martin's possession, but on Oct. 20, the U.S. Justice Department alleged that Martin's theft of secrets was vastly larger.
"During execution of the search warrants, investigators seized thousands of pages of documents and dozens of computers and other digital storage devices and media containing, conservatively, fifty terabytes of information," the legal filing against Martin states.
The filing notes that many of the seized materials are marked "Secret" and "Top Secret" from the period of 1996 to 2016. During that period, Martin worked first in the U.S. Naval Reserves and thereafter for seven different private government contracting companies.
"Throughout his government assignments, the Defendant violated that trust by engaging in wholesale theft of classified government documents and property—a course of felonious conduct that is breathtaking in its longevity and scale," the court filing states.