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Ex-CIA hacker who leaked secrets to WikiLeaks sentenced to 40 years
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Evidence at the trial showed Joshua Schulte worked for an elite CIA hacking unit, became disgruntled at work and may have leaked the material in a spiteful...
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NEW YORK (AP) — A former CIA software engineer was sentenced to 40 years in prison on Thursday after his convictions for what the government described as the biggest theft of classified information in CIA history and for possession of child sexual abuse images and videos.
Federal prosecutors said Josh Schulte’s leak of top secret CIA cyberintelligence jeopardized U.S. national security and directly placed the spy agency’s personnel, programs and assets at risk.
Prosecutors want a life sentence for Joshua Adam Schulte, convicted of one of the most damaging leaks in CIA history, public disclosure of secret hacking tools.
Joshua Schulte was convicted in 2022 of federal charges stemming from accusations that he was behind the largest theft of classified information in CIA history.
Evidence at the trial showed Joshua Schulte worked for an elite CIA hacking unit, became disgruntled at work and may have leaked the material in a spiteful...
A former CIA programmer was sentenced to 40 years in prison on Thursday for leaking the US spy agency's most valuable hacking tools to WikiLeaks.Joshua
Joshua Schulte was sentenced in what the U.S. government described as the biggest theft of classified information in CIA history and for possession of child sexual abuse images and videos.
By Rob Frehse and Mark Morales, CNN (CNN) — A former CIA employee was sentenced to 40 years in prison after carrying out the largest data leak in the agency’s history, the US Attorney’s Office of the Southern District of New York announced Thursday.
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