Joshua Schulte: Former CIA hacker sentenced to 40 years in prison - BBC News

Joshua Schulte, 35, was convicted in 2022 for the largest data breach in the history of the CIA.

15 hours agoShareclose panelShare pageCopy linkAbout sharingImage source, Getty ImagesImage caption, Schulte's data theft is the largest in the history of the CIABy Nadine YousifBBC NewsA former CIA officer has been sentenced to 40 years in prison for leaking a trove of classified hacking tools to whistle-blowing platform Wikileaks.

Joshua Schulte was also found guilty of possessing child abuse images.

Prosecutors have accused him of leaking the CIA's "Vault 7" tools, which allow intelligence officers to hack smartphones and use them as listening devices.

They said the leak is one of the most "brazen" in US history.

Schulte, 35, shared some 8,761 documents to Wikileaks in 2017, amounting to the largest data breach in the history of the CIA, the US justice department said.

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