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CIA Hacking Tool Leaker Faces Child Porn Charges

May 16, 2018 Posted by Amelia Donovan

Wikileaks vanJoshua Adam Schulte, 29, whom the U.S. government suspects to be the leaker of CIA’s top-secret hacking tools last year, was sent to jail on child porn charges. The man’s family claims that the images were planted on his computer and that the U.S. government is “screwing him over.”

The former CIA employee’s lawyers confirmed that the FBI believes that he is behind a huge leak of thousands of classified CIA documents to transparency website Wikileaks in March 2017.

The FBI believed that Mr. Schulte was involved in that leak,

Schulte’s attorney said in a January court hearing.

Reportedly, the feds had multiple search warrants for the suspect’s electronic devices and other items in an effort to find a link between him and the leak. So far, no charges in relation to the leak have been filed.

Experts agree that the exposure of CIA’s hacking tools last year was one of the most damaging security breaches the world has ever seen. Some of the leaked cyber tools could be used against private businesses.

After the leak, Wikileaks’ mastermind Julian Assange accused the CIA of losing control of its cyber weapons. The U.S. intelligence community was greatly damaged by the incident.

Link Between Schulte and CIA Hacking Tool Leak Has Not Been Established

The first news outlet to pinpoint a link between Schulte and the leak was The Washington Post. The man’s brother, Jason, told NBC that the U.S. government was doing his brother a great wrong and basically “screwing him over”

Jason also said that the FBI raided his brother’s New York home before their trip to Cancun on vacation. The feds seized the suspect’s computer, hand-written notes, and notebooks.

Schulte’s brother believes that pornographic images were planted on his computer since other people had access to that device. The man’s lawyer confirmed that investigators had “full access” to his electronic devices but failed to find any connection to the Wikileaks leak.
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Amelia got her feet wet in the captivating world of journalism while still in college, working as the editor of the university’s newspaper. She minored in Journalism and Mass Communication before receiving a scholarship at a prestigious German university. After receiving her bachelor’s degree, Amelia went on to pursue her biggest passions: journalism and science. She enjoys being up to date with any cutting-edge scientific advancements and her minor in biology allowed Amelia to accurately cover particularly interesting medical topics.

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