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CNET: Ex-CIA employee charged in leak of classified hacking tools
Joshua Adam Schulte has been accused of leaking sensitive information to WikiLeaks.
A former CIA employee was charged Monday with leaking information on CIA hacking tools to Wikileaks.
Joshua Adam Schulte, 29, was charged with the theft of classified national defense information in a 13-count indictment handed down by a grand jury, the Justice Department said Monday. According to the indictment, Schulte stole the classified information from a CIA network in 2016 and then transmitted it to an organization that was unidentified in the indictment.
Schulte is also accused of intentionally damaging a CIA computer system, deleting records of his activities and blocking others from accessing the system. Schulte is currently in custody on child pornography charges. He's pleaded not guilty to those charges.
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WNU Editor: Joshua Adam Schulte is facing some serious jail time .... Alleged WikiLeaks source who helped expose CIA hacking tricks faces 135 years in prison (RT).
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