Former U.S. government intelligence contractor Reality Winner, who pleaded guilty to leaking a top-secret National Security Agency (NSA) report on Russian hacking, was sentenced to more than five years in prison by a federal judge on Aug. 23. Prosecutors said the sentence is the longest ever imposed for criminal leaking to the media.
Winner, 26, pleaded guilty in June. While working as an NSA contractor, she printed a top-secret report, smuggled it out of the agency’s Augusta, Georgia, building in her pantyhose, and mailed it to a news organization that was never publicly identified.
