CIA cyber weapons stolen in historic breach due to 'woefully lax security', internal report says
Washington (CNN)The largest theft of data in CIA history happened because a specialized unit within the agency was so focused on building cyber weapons that an employee took advantage of "woefully lax" security and gave secret hacking tools to WikiLeaks, according to an internal report released on Tuesday.
The hacking tools stolen in the breach, which occurred in 2016, came from its clandestine Center for Cyber Intelligence (CCI). The amount of data stolen is unknown, the memo said, but could be as much as 34 terabytes of data -- the equivalent of 2.2 billion pages of text.
The theft was revealed around a year later, in March 2017, when WikiLeaks published what it claimed was the largest trove of CIA documents, dubbed "Vault 7," detailing some of the agency's sophisticated cyber weapons, which was first reported by the Washington Post.
That incident prompted a review by the CIA WikiLeaks Task Force, which submitted its findings in an October 2017 report to then-Director Mike Pompeo and his deputy -- who is now the director -- Gina Haspel.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/16/politics/cia-wikileaks-vault-7-leak-report/index.html
