Wikileaks, the site responsible for the afghan war diary and dnc email leak, has released the largest ever dump of confidential files and documents from the central. The american public should be deeply troubled by any wikileaks disclosure designed to damage the intelligence community’s ability to protect america against terrorists. 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 has published classified documents and. 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.
As reported, wikileaks published a massive trove of information on tuesday, and the cia, along with the fbi, is now investigating whether a contractor or an employee leaked the documents. 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. 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. 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.