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Vault 7: CIA engineer Joshua Schulte charged with data leak

Vault 7: CIA engineer Joshua Schulte charged with data leak





19 June 2018









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CIA cyber-warfare tools were leaked to Wikileaks in 2017

A former CIA software engineer has been charged with leaking a stolen archive of the spy agency's secrets in 2017.Joshua Adam Schulte allegedly stole classified information relating to national security from the CIA to be transmitted to Wikileaks.FBI agents discovered alleged child porn in Mr Schulte's apartment after his arrest.Mr Schulte faces 13 separate charges and could face up to 135 years in prison if found guilty.Using information allegedly provided by Mr Schulte, Wikileaks published thousands of documents in March 2017 detailing the CIA's cyber-warfare programme.


Mr Schulte designed malware used to break into terrorism suspects' and other targets' computers for the CIA for six years. He quit the spy agency in 2016 to w…