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. Joshua schulte, a former cia employee and software engineer accused of sharing material with wikileaks, was sentenced to 40 years in prison by the us southern district of new york on thursday. Wikileaks claimed that the trove of cia information it had obtained, which it called vault 7, included “several hundred million lines of code”, including many of the agency’s cyber weapons.
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Wikileaks has released a huge set of files that it calls year zero and which mark the biggest exposure of cia spying secrets ever.
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. 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 documents for. In 2014, fbi and cia officials lobbied the white house to designate wikileaks as an information broker to allow for more investigative tools against it and according to former officials potentially paving the way for its prosecution. 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
