{"id":50959,"date":"2021-10-11T10:46:53","date_gmt":"2021-10-11T07:46:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=50959"},"modified":"2025-09-02T21:09:32","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T18:09:32","slug":"us-navy-employee-sold-secret-data-for-100000-in-cryptocurrency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/us-navy-employee-sold-secret-data-for-100000-in-cryptocurrency\/","title":{"rendered":"US Navy employee sold secret data for $100,000 in cryptocurrency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A United States Navy (USN) employee and his spouse have been arrested on suspicion of selling secret data for cryptocurrency. The information comes from the <a href=\\\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/opa\/pr\/maryland-nuclear-engineer-and-spouse-arrested-espionage-related-charges\\\">Justice Department&#8217;s website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>According to authorities, nuclear engineer Jonathan Toebbe (Toebbe), with the help of his wife, was selling information about the design of American nuclear submarines to an alleged representative of a foreign state. The latter turned out to be an undercover FBI agent.<\/p>\n<p>In June 2021, the agent sent Toebbe $10 000 in cryptocurrency. According to <a href=\\\"https:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/policy\/2021\/10\/11\/us-nuclear-engineer-wife-charged-over-sale-of-naval-secrets-for-crypto\/\\\">CoinDesk<\/a>, the payment involved Monero. The Justice Department&#8217;s statement does not specify which cryptocurrency was used in the deal.<\/p>\n<p>After receiving the payment, the spouses hid an SD card containing secret data inside half a peanut butter sandwich at a pre-arranged location. The agent then sent the Navy employee another $20 000 for the decryption key.<\/p>\n<p>In August, Toebbe hid another SD card in a packaging from gum, receiving $70 000 for the decryption key. In October, the engineer made another stash with a card containing submarine data, after which he and his wife were arrested.<\/p>\n<p>The spouses are due to appear in court on October 12.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, the spouses, who served in the U.S. Navy, <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/us-navy-personnel-sold-the-personal-data-of-9000-people-for-bitcoins\">were accused of selling personal data<\/a> of more than 9,000 people for $160,000 in Bitcoin.<\/p>\n<p>Follow ForkLog&#8217;s Bitcoin news in our <a href=\\\"\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\\\" target=\\\"\u201c_blank\u201d\\\" rel=\\\"\u201cnofollow\u201d noopener\\\">Telegram<\/a> \u2014 news on cryptocurrencies, rates and analytics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A United States Navy employee and his spouse have been arrested on suspicion of selling secret data for cryptocurrency. This was reported on the Justice Department&#8217;s website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":50960,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1154,1143,26],"class_list":["post-50959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-crimes","tag-intelligence-agencies","tag-usa"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"19","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50959"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50959\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50961,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50959\/revisions\/50961"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}