The bulk of the sentence imposed on joshua schulte, 35, came for an embarrassing public release of a trove of cia secrets by wikileaks in 2017. 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. Joshua adam schulte (born september 25, 1988) is a former central intelligence agency (cia) employee who was convicted of leaking classified documents to wikileaks.
Wikileaks released around 9,000 documents detailing the cia’s cyber tools and tactics, further revealing methods used for the exploitation of vulnerabilities in electronic devices. 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. 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.
Today, tuesday 7 march 2017, wikileaks begins its new series of leaks on the u.s. Joshua schulte, 35, was convicted of cyber espionage in july 2022 for leaking a massive amount of classified data to wikileaks, the site dedicated to publishing classified.