The release of information by wikileaks relating to the central intelligence agency (cia) hacking tools and techniques, known as vault 7, has once again brought the. Joshua schulte was sentenced to 40 years in prison on thursday for turning over confidential cia documents to wikileaks, committing what the us attorney's office for the. A former cia software engineer who was convicted of carrying out the largest data breach in the agency's history was sentenced to 40 years in prison on thursday, the.
Wikileaks has released what it says are thousands of documents describing internal cia discussions on hacking techniques used to circumvent security on electronic. It has published classified documents and. Wikileaks claimed that the trove of cia information it had obtained, which it called vault 7, included “several hundred million lines of code”, including many of the agency’s cyber.
Today, tuesday 7 march 2017, wikileaks begins its new series of leaks on the u.s. Vault 7 is a series of documents that wikileaks began to publish on 7 march 2017, detailing the activities and capabilities of the united states central intelligence agency (cia) to perform. It is funded by donations [13] and media partnerships.