Experts have 2 theories for how top-secret NSA data was stolen, and they're equally disturbing

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by Paul Szoldra at Business Insider

http://www.businessinsider.com/nsa-hacking-theories-2016-8

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Some former agency employees believe that the alleged group behind the leak, the "Shadow Brokers," may have hacked an NSA server that had a top-secret hacker toolkit left there by mistake.

Others believe that the Brokers may be just a smokescreen for another possibility: an agency mole.

"The key thing I think people are missing is that [most are talking] about how someone hacked a command-and-control box somewhere on the internet," Dave Aitel, an ex-NSA research scientist who now leads penetration-testing firm Immunity, told Business Insider. "If you actually look at the files, it really doesn't seem like that is the case."


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[Wilms]

1. Wow.

There's was something about "the Russian's did it" campaign that gave me pause.

[applegrove]

2. Now, with the intertubes and wikileaks, moles can be self radicalized. They do not have to

belong to some foreign government or be handled by them. Scary world it is.

[Wilms]

3. But...but...but..."it took million$ to do this...

...so it must be state sponsored...so it must be Putin".

Should get a lot of attention.

[applegrove]

4. It could very well be the Russians.

[Wilms]

5. And could very well not.