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Joshua Schulte, a former programmer with the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, has been found guilty of leaking a trove of classified hacking tools and exploits dubbed Vault 7 to WikiLeaks. U.S. Attorney Damian Williams said in a statement that Schulte was convicted for "One of the most brazen and damaging acts of espionage in American history," adding his actions had a "Devastating effect on our intelligence community by providing critical intelligence to those who wish to do us harm."
Long article about Joshua Schulte, the accused leaker of the WikiLeaks Vault 7 and Vault 8 CIA data. Well worth reading.
A just-released report on the 2016 Central Intelligence Agency data breach, which led to the Vault 7 document dump on WikiLeaks, blames "Woefully lax" security by the nation's top spy agency. The report outlined various security issues discovered in the CCI. For instance, while CCI's DevLAN network had been certified and accredited, CCI had not worked to develop or deploy user activity monitoring or "Robust" server audit capabilities for the network, according to the report.
The extraordinary trial of a former CIA sysadmin accusing of leaking top-secret hacking tools to WikiLeaks has ended in a mistrial. Some of those motions will ask for information from the prosecution that was kept from her during the trial, most controversially the case of "Michael," a co-worker of Schulte who was put on administrative leave by the CIA when evidence emerged linking him to the theft of the Vault 7 hacking tools.
The fate of the man accused of leaking top-secret CIA hacking tools - software that gave the American spy agency access to targets' phones and computer across the world - is now in the hands of a jury. Joshua Schulte stands accused of stealing the highly valuable materials directly from the CIA's innermost sanctum and slipping them to WikiLeaks to share with the rest of the planet.
Lawyer for Joshua Schulte unhappy about agency review The lawyer for former CIA employee Joshua Schulte is unhappy the spy agency is allowed to review communications with her client before she...
The FBI says that Schulte's poor opsec was his undoing.
A 29-year-old former CIA computer programmer who was charged with possession of child pornography last year has now been charged with masterminding the largest leak of classified information in...
The suspect worked for a CIA group that designed hacking tools at the time the cyber-spying arsenal was given to WikiLeaks.
A former employee of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is believed to have provided WikiLeaks the files made public by the whistleblower organization as part of its ‘Vault 7’ leak, which...