A GCHQ intern who endangered national security by downloading top secret information while on a work placement with the intelligence agency has been jailed.
Hasaan Arshad, 25, was on secondment to the communications agency when he took his work mobile phone into a top secret area and connected the device to a workstation.
The Manchester University student downloaded the names of spies and risked exposing 17 colleagues in August 2022, the Old Bailey heard.
The computer expert, who is the son of a local councillor from Rochdale, Lancashire, has now been jailed for seven and a half years.
Arshad previously pleaded guilty to an offence under the Computer Misuse Act which carries a maximum penalty of life in prison.
