00:00 It's Benzinga and here's what's on the block.
00:02 A former CIA computer engineer Joshua Schult was sentenced to 40 years in prison for the biggest
00:07 theft of classified information in CIA history. Schult was convicted of providing thousands of
00:11 CIA documents to Wikileaks in the so-called Vault 7 leak in 2017. The leak revealed how the CIA
00:16 hacked smartphones and turned smart TVs into listening devices for overseas spying operations.
00:21 Schult was also convicted of possessing over 2,400 images and videos of child sexual abuse
00:26 material in jail. The government called Schult's actions among the most damaging leaks in US
00:30 history, costing hundreds of millions and jeopardizing national security. For all things
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