In the USA detained the 25-year-old Reality Lay Vinner on charges of divulging classified information.
According to the version of the FBI, Reality winner gave the journalists The Intercept a top secret document the national security Agency (NSA), which referred to the involvement of Russian intelligence to cyber attacks shortly before the presidential election in the United States.
According to a report published by The Intercept, Russian hackers on the instructions of the Main intelligence Directorate of the Russian Federation (GRU) staged a cyber attack on, at least one manufacturer of electronic voting a few days before the election of the President of the United States.
In a report dated may 5 2017, also States that the involvement of Russian hackers in the elections could be much more serious than previously estimated.
The Intercept says that the NSA report sharply contradicts the statement of the President of Russia Vladimir Putin that «Russia will never interfere in foreign elections at the state level», however, Vladimir Putin added about the possibility of intervention of an independent and «Patriotic» Russian hackers. The report says the NSA specifically about GRU as the customer of cyber-attacks.
However, despite the detailed analysis, the US intelligence services do not make final conclusions about influence whether the intervention of Russian hackers on the result of the presidential election. The report States only that there is a likelihood that violated some elements of the voting system.
And today it became known about detention of the Reality Lay Wiener – it FBI suspects in the transmission of the report of the NSA journalists.
As reported in the press service of the Ministry of justice, winner six years in the air force, and since February of 2017 began working at Pluribus International (one of the contractors of the NSA) had access to secret documents.
FBI agents initially identified six employees Pluribus International, which printed a report of the national security Agency, but only on the computer Vinner found e-mail correspondence with journalists.
Reality winner formally charged on 8 June, the court will choose the measure of restraint. Arrested faces up to 10 years in prison.
Alleged NSA whistleblower Reality Leigh Winner must be supported. She is a young women accused of courage in trying to help us know. pic.twitter.com/B4aIdt7qz6
— Julian Assange (@JulianAssange) June 6, 2017
