The bulk of the sentence imposed on joshua schulte, 35, in manhattan federal court came for an embarrassing public release of a trove of cia secrets by wikileaks in 2017. The american public should be deeply troubled by any wikileaks disclosure designed to damage the intelligence community’s ability to protect america against terrorists. The leak of hacked data to wikileaks leveled the cia as the classified information proliferated publicly, prosecutors said while citing testimony from schulte's trials in 2022 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. A man convicted of carrying out one of the most damaging data breaches in the cia's history — the public disclosure of secret hacking tools — was sentenced to 40 years in. Wikileaks released around 9,000 documents detailing the cia’s cyber tools and tactics, further revealing methods used for the exploitation of vulnerabilities in electronic devices.
Today, tuesday 7 march 2017, wikileaks begins its new series of leaks on the u.s. It is funded by donations [13] and media partnerships. It has published classified documents and.