He leaked the American "hidden weapon", he was convicted

A federal jury in New York City ruled on the 13th that the former software engineer of the Central Intelligence Agency leaked the "most valuable" hacker tools of the agency to the WikiLeaks and the crime of stolen and transported national defense information to the WikiLeaks.

△ Former Software Engineer Qiao Shuta Schult

The jury ruled that the allegations related to the eight spy crimes of Schult and the accusations of the crime of hindering public duties were established. Each spy is charged with a maximum of 10 years in prison, which means that Schult, 33, may face decades of prison life.

American cyber war "hidden weapon" is exposed

According to the charges of prosecutors, Schult originally worked for the elite hacker group of the CIA, stole the "Treasury No. 7" document of the CIA's hacking tool library, and sent it to the Wikiilic decryption website after resignation. It was discovered by the Central Love Bureau in March 2017.

The "Treasury 7" is believed to be combined with a variety of computer viruses, malware, Trojan programs, etc., used to invade and destroy target computers and technical systems. It is an important weapon for the CIA to engage in cyber warfare.

This leakage revealed how the CIA's Apple and Android smartphone systems that invaded overseas users, or implanted an eavesdropping program in a network TV to explore foreign information. Schurt helped to design these "hackers" during the work of the Central Love Bureau in Langli, Virginia.

Prosecutors said that Schult "Once the tools that they leaked were made public, they would inevitably fail, and the harm may pose a great threat to the country. Intelligence has a catastrophic impact on my country's intelligence community. "

Prosecutors said that Schult believed that his complaint against the working environment did not be valued, so he "resentment" and decided to retaliate against the CIA.

Schult did not admit guilty. He defended himself in court that the CIA and the Federal Investigation Bureau embarrassed because of his own disclosure of the secret, so he regarded him as a "scapegoat."

The "most destructive" leakage incident

After the WikiLeaks websites exposed another group of US confidential intelligence files in 2017, investigators quickly listed Schult as suspects, but at that time, only a large number of children's pornographic images were found in their computers, and there was no evidence of leakage. Schurt was charged with the crime of holding and transmitting children's pornographic images in September of the same year, and was later charged with a spy.

The court did not decide the date of the verdict. However, Schult has been detained since 2018. The prosecutor said that he still tried to leak more confidential materials during his detaing and continued to "information war" with the US government.

Federal prosecutor Damian Williams said Schult committed "one of the most destructive spy crimes" in American history.

△ Wiki Secret Website founder Julian Assange

Agence France -Presse reported that the heavy losses leaked the U.S. government to consider taking severe crackdown measures on the WikiLeaks websites. At that time, Mike Pompeo, then the director of the China Intelligence Bureau, characterized the website as "hostile intelligence agency". Subsequently, the U.S. government filed a spy lawsuit against the founder of the website, Julian Assange, who fled overseas and evaded the US wanted.

The British government approved the United States to extradite Assange in the United States on June 17, and the WikiLeak Decrypted website has appealed. If Anshan is extradited to the United States, it will face up to 175 years.

Source: CCTV News Client

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