Today, Tuesday 7 March 2017, WikiLeaks begins its new series of leaks on the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency. Code-named "Vault 7" by WikiLeaks, it is the largest ever publication of confidential …

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 …

Joshua Adam Schulte (born September 25, 1988) is a former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) employee who was convicted of leaking classified documents to WikiLeaks.

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 …

Feb 2, 2024 · 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.

Jul 14, 2022 · Joshua Schulte, who chose to defend himself at a New York City retrial, had told jurors in closing arguments that the CIA and FBI made him a scapegoat for an embarrassing public release of …

Feb 1, 2024 · 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 federal prison ...

Schulte provided a trove of CIA documents to WikiLeaks, which published the data under the labels 'Vault 7' and 'Vault 8' in 2017.

Mar 22, 2023 · An ex-CIA engineer convicted of leaking the agency's secret spying tools to WikiLeaks has been found with 2,400 "likely" child sexual abuse images on a laptop inside his federal lockup, …

A look at the Vault 7 leak — the CIA’s hacking tools, how Joshua Schulte pulled off the breach, and what it meant for intelligence operations and cybersecurity.