Vault 7 Hacker Sentenced to 40 Years in Prison For Leaking CIA Files

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US District Judge Jesse M. Furman sentenced former CIA officer Joshua Schulte to forty years in prison for orchestrating the largest leak of classified material in CIA history called the Vault 7 leaks.

In that leak, Schulte handed WikiLeaks a trove of CIA cyber-espionage tools known in what federal prosecutors called "some of the most heinous, brazen violations of the Espionage Act in American history." He was convicted in July 2022 of illegally handling classified information and obstruction of justice after an earlier trial had ended in a hung jury.

WikiLeaks began publishing the classified data from the stolen CIA files, the first of 26 disclosures, on March 7, 2017.

The trove of information revealed …