Former contractor stole more than 50TBs of government data.

• Position: GOVERNMENT RECORDS - Harold Martin - Brief article

In what is being called the biggest case of classified document mishandling in U.S. history, FBI agents recently seized more than 50 terabytes of classified documents from the Maryland home of a former National Security Agency (NSA) contractor.

According to a recent federal court filing, Harold Martin spent 20 years working for multiple government agencies, including the NSA. He was arrested in August but it may take months before agents finish combing through the classified material he had accumulated. According to PC Magazine, it is unclear whether all the files are classified, but prosecutors said much of it is likely "national defense information."

Martin was arrested less than a week after federal authorities announced they were investigating a leak of the NSA's hacking tools. The leak included a 31-page document...