Alleged WikiLeaks source who helped expose CIA hacking tricks faces 135 years in prison

Published time: 19 Jun, 2018 05:19

A former CIA and NSA programmer has been charged with stealing and leaking classified information and with possessing child pornography. Joshua Adam Schulte is thought to be behind WikiLeaks’ exposure of the CIA’s hacking arsenal.

Schulte, 29, worked in the CIA’s Engineering Development Group, tasked with designing the clandestine tools used by the US intelligence agency to crack electronic devices and use them for surveillance. He left the agency in late 2016, but not before he stole highly sensitive classified materials from its computer network, prosecution believes.

In the indictment, filed by the US Attorney's Office in New York's Southern District on Monday, Shulte was charged with 13 counts of “alleged theft of classified defense information” from the CIA, which he then allegedly handed over to an unnamed third party, an organization that “purports to publicly disseminate classified, sensitive, and confidential information.”

https://www.rt.com/usa/430166-wikileaks-cia-tools-source-charges/