A former software engineer for the CIA was convicted by a jury in New York on Wednesday on all nine federal charges he faced that accused him of causing the largest leak of classified information in the agency’s history.
Joshua Schulte defended himself at a retrial in New York City, where he told jurors that the CIA and FBI made him a scapegoat in the March 2017 leak that involved WikiLeaks publishing what has been dubbed “Vault 7.”
The Vault 7 leak involved files dated dated 2013–2016 that showed a range of tactics and tools the CIA used to hack people’s computers, Apple or Android smartphones, smart TVs, and messaging applications in its spying operations….