On Tuesday, March 7, 2017 WikiLeaks began publishing the first full part “Year 0” of its “Vault 7” series of 8,761 documents and files allegedly from an isolated, high-security network situated inside the CIA’s Center for Cyber Intelligence in Langley, Virginia.
According to WikiLeaks:
“By the end of 2016, the CIA’s hacking division, which formally falls under the agency’s Center for Cyber Intelligence (CCI), had over 5000 registered users and had produced more than a thousand hacking systems, trojans, viruses, and other “weaponized” malware. Such is the scale of the CIA’s undertaking that by 2016, its hackers had utilized more code than that used to run Facebook. The CIA had created, in effect, its “own NSA” with even less accountability and without publicly answering the question as to whether such a massive budgetary spend on duplicating the capacities of a rival agency could be justified.”
The publishing of this information compromised a significant amount of cyber security information that was not previously public. It publicly disclosed the confidential Cyber Security tools allegedly used by the CIA.
For more detailed information:
Vault 7: CIA Hacking Tools Revealed (WikiLeaks, 03-07,2017)
WikiLeaks Dumps Docs on CIA’s Hacking Tools (KrebsonSecurity, 03-08-17)