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Ex-CIA Employee Charged with Leak of Classified CIA Vault 7 Hacking Tools
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/government/ex-cia-employee-charged-with-leak-of-classified-cia-vault-7-hacking-tools/
The Department of Justice has announced new charges against former CIA software engineer Joshua Schulte for allegedly leaking classified CIA documents, software projects, and hacking utilities called Vault 7 to WikiLeaks. Schulte was charged on August 24, 2017 with possession of child pornography, but was also believed to be the source of the embarrassing leak of CIA documents.
Today, federal prosecutors have charged Schulte with 3 charges related to the theft and disclosure of the Vault 17 material and his possession of child pornography.