Former CIA employee leaked hacking tools and classified information
Former CIA employee Joshua Schulte leaked hacking tools and classified information to WikiLeaks. The case was the largest data leak in CIA history, and Schulte was sentenced to 40 years in prison.
Key facts
- Affected organisation
- Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
- Incident type
- Data breach
- Occurred / detected
- Not confirmed
- Scale of damage
- Leak of hacking tools and classified information
- Cause / method
- Leak of classified information to WikiLeaks by a former employee
- Location
- United States
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Timeline
- The 40-year prison sentence for Joshua Schulte, who leaked CIA classified information to WikiLeaks, was reported.
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