Canberra APS worker jailed for leaking 'top secret' documents

[InfoSec News <alerts () infosecnews org>]

http://www.canberratimes.com.au/act-news/canberra-aps-worker-jailed-for-leaking-top-secret-documents-20151104-gkr7tz.html

By Michael Inman
COURTS REPORTER FOR THE CANBERRA TIMES
November 5, 2015

A former junior Defence bureaucrat has been jailed for uploading secret 
information online.

But Australia's former army chief, Peter Leahy, says Michael Scerba should 
have been locked up for longer his "self-indulgent and selfish" security 
breach.

Justice Richard Refshauge on Thursday sentenced Scerba, 24, to one year 
jail for disclosing secret information.

Scerba will serve three months behind bars, with the remainder of the 
sentence suspended upon signing a good behaviour order and a $500 security 
bond.

He will be released in February.

Scerba pleaded guilty in the ACT Supreme Court to posting a secret Defence 
Intelligence Organisation report to image sharing website 4chan in October 
2012.

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