WASHINGTON- Federal prosecutors on Monday charged a former CIA employeewith violations of the Espionage Act and related crimes in connection withthe leak last year of a collection of hacking tools that the agency usedfor spy operations overseas.
Joshua Adam Schulte, who worked for a CIA group that designs computer codeto spy on foreign adversaries, was charged in a 13-count supersedingindictment with illegally gathering and transmitting national defenceinformation and other related counts in connection with what is consideredto be one of the most significant leaks in CIA history.
The indictment accused Schulte of causing sensitive information to betransmitted to an organisation, which is not named in the indictment but isthought to be WikiLeaks.
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The group posted the hacking tools online last year in a release it called”Vault 7.” Prosecutors alleged Schulte stole the information in 2016.
Schulte had long been a suspect of investigators exploring the leak, butbefore Monday, he had been held on separate child pornography charges.Manhattan US Attorney Geoffrey Berman said in a statement thatinvestigators looking into Schulte found the porn in his residence. Hispersonal computer, federal prosecutors alleged, held more than 10,000images and videos of such material, protected under three layers ofpasswords.Promoted: In the Stores
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Schulte was arrested on charges stemming from the porn in August 2017.