‘Digital Pearl Harbor’: Former CIA engineer who wreaked ‘untold damage to national security’ by giving hacked data to Wikileaks is sentenced

FILE - In this courtroom sketch, Joshua Schulte, center, is seated at the defense table flanked by his attorneys during jury deliberations, March 4, 2020, in New York. Schulte, was sentenced to 40 years in prison, Thursday, Feb. 1, 2024, 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. (Elizabeth Williams via AP)

FILE — In this courtroom sketch, Joshua Schulte, center, is seated at the defense table flanked by his attorneys during jury deliberations, on March 4, 2020, in New York. (Elizabeth Williams via AP)

More than a year after he was found guilty of executing the largest leak of data in the history of the CIA — what one judge in New York this week reiterated was a “digital Pearl Harbor” — former spy agency computer engineer Joshua Schulte was sentenced to 40 years in prison.

Schulte, 35, sent a massive swath of stolen data from the CIA to WikiLeaks, which published the records in 2017 under the names “Vault 7″ and later “Vault 8.” They contained, namely, archived copies of classified records on the CIA’s spying tools and techniques, information on its cyberwarfare and surveillance capabilities, and, among other things, details on how the agency was able to hack into web browsers, Apple and Android cellphones and other common devices with internet connections including televisions.

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