"U.S. identifies suspect in major leak of CIA hacking tools The U.S. government has identified a suspect in the leak last year of a large portion of the CIA’s computer hacking arsenal, the cyber tools the agency had used to conduct espionage operations overseas, according to interviews and public documents. But despite months of investigation, prosecutors have been unable to bring charges against the man, who is a former CIA employee currently being held in a Manhattan jail on unrelated charges. Joshua Adam Schulte, who worked for a CIA group that designs computer code to spy on foreign adversaries, is believed to have provided the agency’s top-secret information to WikiLeaks, federal prosecutors acknowledged in a hearing in January. The anti-secrecy group published the code under the label “Vault 7” in March 2017. It was one of the most significant and potentially damaging leaks in the CIA’s history, exposing secret cyber weapons and spying techniques that also might be used against the United States, according to current and former intelligence officials. Schulte’s connection to the leak investigation hasn’t been previously reported..." https://www.washingtonpost.com/worl...4a123c359ab_story.html?utm_term=.f2ecb0c46901
Josh Schulte: CIA insider gone south or repugnant criminal? June 11, 2018 https://www.csoonline.com/article/3...insider-gone-south-or-repugnant-criminal.html
DOJ Indicts Josh Schulte, "Vault 7" Leak Suspect Schulte faces max sentence of 135 years in prison if convicted on all 13 charges (includes 50 years of max sentence for pornography related charges): Illegal Gathering of National Defense Information, 18 U.S.C. §§ 793(b) and 2 Illegal Transmission of Lawfully Possessed National Defense Information, 18 U.S.C. §§ 793(d) and 2 Illegal Transmission of Unlawfully Possessed National Defense Information, 18 U.S.C. §§ 793(e) and 2 Unauthorized Access to a Computer To Obtain Classified Information, 18 U.S.C. §§ 1030(a)(1) and 2 Theft of Government Property, 18 U.S.C. §§ 641 and 2 Unauthorized Access of a Computer to Obtain Information from a Department or Agency of the United States, 18 U.S.C. §§ 1030(a)(2) and 2 Causing Transmission of a Harmful Computer Program, Information, Code, or Command, 18 U.S.C. §§ 1030(a)(5) and 2 Making False Statements, 18 U.S.C. §§ 1001 and 2 Obstruction of Justice, 18 U.S.C. §§ 1503 and 2 Receipt of Child Pornography, 18 U.S.C. §§ 2252A(a)(2)(B), (b)(1), and 2 Possession of Child Pornography, 18 U.S.C. §§ 2252A(a)(5)(B), (b)(2), and 2 Transportation of Child Pornography, 18 U.S.C. § 2252A(a)(1) Criminal Copyright Infringement, 17 U.S.C. § 506(a)(1)(A) and 18 U.S.C. § 2319(b)(1) https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/p...d-disclosure-classified-information-and-other
As Vault 7 trial begins, Joshua Schulte's attorneys will argue he's a whistleblower February 3, 2020 https://www.cyberscoop.com/vault-7-trial-joshus-schulte-wikileaks/
Joshua Schulte's attorney suggests Vault 7 leaks were due to the CIA's poor cybersecurity February 4, 2020 https://www.cyberscoop.com/vault-7-trial-joshua-schulte-opening-arguments/
Joshua Schulte's attorneys are trying to call Mike Pompeo in the Vault 7 trial February 18, 2020 https://www.cyberscoop.com/mike-pompeo-joshua-schulte-vault-7-cia-wikileaks/
Coder charged in massive CIA leak portrayed as vindictive March 2, 2020 https://abcnews.go.com/Technology/w...assive-cia-leak-portrayed-vindictive-69343324
"Jury in CIA leaks case fails to reach a verdict on most serious charges NEW YORK — A jury in New York failed to reach a verdict Monday on whether a former CIA employee gave a huge cache of hacking tools to WikiLeaks, in what officials had called the biggest leak of classified information in the history of the intelligence agency. Jurors, who had begun their deliberations last week, told Judge Paul Crotty that they were “extremely deadlocked” on many of the charges. Joshua Schulte, 31, had been accused of disclosing the hacking tools and also disclosing information to a reporter at The Washington Post while he was in jail awaiting trial..." https://www.washingtonpost.com/nati...947c40-5cc3-11ea-9055-5fa12981bbbf_story.html
US will try Joshua Schulte again for allegedly leaking CIA hacking tools https://www.cyberscoop.com/joshua-schulte-vault-7-new-trial/
Theft of CIA’s ‘Vault 7’ Secrets Tied to ‘Woefully Lax” Security https://threatpost.com/theft-of-cias-vault-7-secrets-tied-to-woefully-lax-security/
Accused CIA leaker Joshua Schulte allowed to represent himself at next Vault 7 trial July 26, 2021 https://www.cyberscoop.com/joshua-schulte-vault7-trial-cia/
"Joshua Schulte: Former CIA hacker convicted of 'brazen' data leak A former CIA hacker has been found guilty of leaking a trove of classified hacking tools to Wikileaks. Joshua Schulte was convicted of sending the CIA's "Vault 7" cyber-warfare tools to the whistle-blowing platform. He had denied the allegations..." https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-62158799
