The NSA employee likely responsible for the ShadowBrokers leak – and by extension the WannaCrypt NHS hack – has been caught and pleads guilty.

The trove of exploits and data that he retrieved were then stolen from his home computer, allegedly through a hack by Russian agents who gained access through a backdoor in the software Kaspersky. A mysterious internet collective who call themselves the Shadowbrokers have been releasing a collection of hacked NSA exploits since last summer, and whilst that breach hasn’t officially been linked to of Pho’s arrest, the timing and an analysis which suggests that Shadowbrokers have had access to a TAO insider can hardly be dismissed as coincidental.