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Former GCHQ intern risked national security after taking home top secret data

A former GCHQ intern has pleaded guilty to transferring data from a top-secret computer onto his work phone. Hassaan Arshad, who was arrested in 2022, is alleged to have downloaded the stolen data onto a hard drive connected to a personal computer. He pleaded guilty to a charge under Section 3ZA of the Computer Misuse Act 1990, which relates to…