The FBI secretly arrested a Booz Allen Hamilton contractor working for the NSA who may be linked to the high-profile leak of the agency's hacking tools, The New York Times is reporting. 
 
 The contractor, Harold Thomas Martin III, 51, is suspected of taking the top-secret computer code the agency had been using to break into computer systems of foreign adversaries. 
 
 According to the Department of Justice, search warrants were executed on Martin's residence in Glen Burnie, Maryland, on August 27. Investigators found numerous hard-copy and digital documents that were classified Top Secret/SCI, the complaint says. 
 
 Besides documents, investigators also say Martin stole US government property that was valued in excess of $1,000. 
 
 Martin faces a maximum of one year in prison on charges of theft of government property and unauthorized removal and retention of classified materials. 
 
 As part of an affidavit, FBI Special Agent Jeremy Bucalo said the contractor initially denied taking classified information home with him but later acknowledged doing so and said he knew he was not authorized to do so. 
 
 In early August, there was an unprecedented breach of the NSA's hacking tools, which included numerous previously unknown "zero day" exploits the agency's hackers could use to more easily break into targeted computers. The leaked files appeared online in a bizarre auction by a group calling itself "The Shadow Brokers," though some suspected an insider was responsible. 
 
 This is huge. Did the FBI secretly arrest the person behind the reports NSA sat on huge flaws in US products? https://t.co/otgOwB5efm — Edward Snowden (@Snowden) October 5, 2016 
 
 The Times did not specifically link that leak with the arrest of the contractor, though the timing would make sense. 
 
 Should this insider be implicated in that leak, it would be another embarrassment for not only the agency — still reeling from the Edward Snowden leaks — but also Booz Allen Hamilton, which employed them both. 
 
 Booz Allen Hamilton declined to comment. Business Insider has also reached out to the FBI for comment. 
 
 This post has been updated. 

 WASHINGTON — The F.B.I. secretly arrested a former National Security Agency contractor in August and, according to law enforcement officials, is investigating whether he stole and disclosed highly classified computer code developed by the agency to hack into the networks of foreign governments. 
 
 The arrest raises the embarrassing prospect that for the second time in three years, a contractor for the consulting company Booz Allen Hamilton managed to steal highly damaging secret information while working for the N.S.A. In 2013, Edward J. Snowden, who was also a Booz Allen contractor, took a vast trove of documents from the agency that were later passed to journalists, exposing surveillance programs in the United States and abroad. 
 
 The contractor was identified as Harold T. Martin III of Glen Burnie, Md., according to a criminal complaint filed in late August and unsealed Wednesday. Mr. Martin, who at the time of his arrest was working as a contractor for the Defense Department after leaving the N.S.A., was charged with theft of government property and the unauthorized removal or retention of classified documents. 
 
 Mr. Martin, 51, was arrested during an F.B.I. raid on his home on Aug. 27. A neighbor, Murray Bennett, said in a telephone interview on Wednesday that two dozen F.B.I. agents wearing military-style uniforms and armed with long guns stormed the house, and later escorted Mr. Martin out in handcuffs.
– The NSA may have another Edward Snowden on its hands. The New York Times, quoting multiple sources, reports the FBI recently arrested an NSA contractor suspected of stealing "highly classified computer codes" used for hacking foreign governments, such as China, Iran, and Russia. Furthermore, the contractor—identified by Business Insider as 51-year-old Harold Martin III—worked for Booz Allen Hamilton, the same consulting firm used by the NSA that Snowden worked for. According to Business Insider, NSA hacking codes were leaked in August in an "unprecedented breach." And while it's unclear if this is the breach Martin was arrested in connection with, "the timing would make sense."