Nuclear engineer sells classified data to undercover FBI agents for crypto

A nuclear engineer and his wife have been arrested in West Virginia on charges of espionage and selling restricted data.

The couple sold classified information regarding the designs of nuclear-powered warships to an individual they believed to represent a foreign nation for almost a year. However, the contact was an undercover United States Federal Bureau of Investigation agent who sent payments for the data in cryptocurrency.

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