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Joshua Schulte, who used to work for the CIA, was given a 40-year prison sentence for leaking a huge amount of secret information on Wikileaks, a platform for revealing sensitive data. This was the biggest and boldest data leak in the CIA’s history, according to prosecutors, CNN and BBC report. In 2017, Schulte shared around 8,761 classified documents with Wikileaks, making it the biggest data breach in CIA history. The tools he leaked, called Vault 7, let intelligence agents hack into smartphones and listen to what happening nearby. Even though he denied the charges, Schulte was found guilty …

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