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. 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 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. 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 documents published on tuesday include instruction.
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 technology inc.) The project was maintained between 2014 and 2015. 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. Joshua schulte, the former central intelligence agency employee who leaked a trove of classified information to wikileaks, has been sentenced to 40 years in prison.
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