"CIA Leaker Joshua Schulte Receives 40-Year Prison Sentence"

Former CIA employee Joshua Schulte was sentenced to 40 years in prison for carrying out the largest data leak in the agency's history, illegally gathering and transmitting national defense information to WikiLeaks in 2016. He was also found guilty of receiving, possessing, and transporting child pornography. Schulte, a computer engineer at the CIA, created cyber tools to grab data undetected from computers and was accused of stealing cyber tools and source code, which were later published by WikiLeaks. The severity of his actions reflects the magnitude of the disturbing and harmful threat posed by his criminal conduct, according to the FBI.