US court convicts Joshua Schulte, ex-CIA software engineer, on charges accusing him of causing the biggest theft of classified information in the agency's history
Prior to his arrest, Schulte had helped create the hacking tools as a coder at the CIA's headquarters in Langley, Virginia.
Joshua Schulte, who chose to defend himself at a New York City retrial, had told jurors in closing arguments that the CIA and FBI made him a scapegoat for an embarrassing public release of a trove of CIA secrets by WikiLeaks in 2017. A sentencing date was not immediately set because Schulte still awaits trial on child pornography possession and transport charges. The so-called Vault 7 leak revealed how the CIA hacked Apple and Android smartphones in overseas spying operations and efforts to turn internet-connected televisions into listening devices.
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