CNN —A former CIA employee was sentenced to 40 years in prison after carrying out the largest data leak in the agency’s history, the US Attorney’s Office of the Southern District of New York announced Thursday.
He was also found guilty in 2023 of receiving, possessing and transporting child pornography, according to the US Attorney’s Office.
He had worked as a computer engineer within the CIA’s Center for Cyber Intelligence, and created cyber tools that could grab data undetected from computers.
A year later, investigators said Schulte stole cyber tools and source code and transferred them to WikiLeaks, according to court records.
Schulte, who also allegedly lied to CIA and FBI investigators to cover his tracks, was arrested in August 2017 on child pornography charges.
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