Fixation on cyber weapons left CIA hackers vulnerable to leaks, internal report says

Published June 16, 2020 2:33pm ET



A massive leak on the CIA’s top-secret cyberespionage tools was able to occur because a top hacking team “prioritized building cyber weapons at the expense of securing their own systems,” an internal report said.

The October 2017 report by a CIA task force said security protocols were “woefully lax” within the unit that built the spy tools. The partial and redacted report was obtained by the Washington Examiner from the office of Sen. Ron Wyden, an Oregon Democrat who is a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee.

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