US government snitch-finder pleads guilty to leaking state secrets to foreign spies

Sunday, August 30, 2026 at 03:26 PM UTC·Source: DataBreaches.net

Updated: Sunday, August 30, 2026 at 04:00 PM UTC

Executive Summary

Connor Jones reports: The former Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) IT specialist previously accused of trying to pass secret and top-secret information to foreign spies has pleaded guilty following a successful FBI sting. Nathan Vilas Laatsch, then 28, and now 29, was arrested in May 2025 after an undercover FBI agent caught him for the second time transmitting... Source

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Originally published by DataBreaches.net on Aug 30, 2026.

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