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 electronic surveillance and cyber warfare. Today, september 7th 2017, wikileaks publishes four secret documents from the protego project of the cia, along with 37 related documents (proprietary hardware/software manuals from microchip technology inc.) 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
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Evidence at the trial showed schulte worked for an elite cia hacking unit, became disgruntled at work and may have leaked the material in a spiteful attempt to lash back at his colleagues.
The american public should be deeply troubled by any wikileaks disclosure designed to damage the intelligence community’s ability to protect america against terrorists and other adversaries.
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 2023 The impact on the cia was immediately catastrophic. Schulte, 35, handed wikileaks a trove of cia cyber espionage tools known as vault 7, in what federal prosecutors called some of the most heinous, brazen violations of the espionage act in american history. The documents published on tuesday include instruction.
