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Matt Johansen
@mattjay.com

Woah. Trenchant, who develops zero-days and surveillance tools for Five Eyes intelligence agencies (US, UK, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand). Has had an insider accused of selling secrets to Russia.

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Matt Johansen
@mattjay.com

Timeline: Williams allegedly stole 7 trade secrets between Apr '22-Jun '25, and an 8th between Jun-Aug '25. He was Trenchant's GM from Oct '24 until Aug '25, operating out of DC.

Matt Johansen
@mattjay.com

Worth noting that this comes on heels of recent internal Trenchant investigation into leaked hacking tools. Not yet clear if the two incidents are connected.

Matt Johansen
@mattjay.com

The criminal information doc is light on specifics - doesn't name the victim companies or detail nature of stolen trade secrets. But does list all the watches the FBI collected from him... We can connect some dots based on what they do as a company.