An internal report prepared after the worst data loss in CIA history says the agency prioritized the development of hacking tools and cyberweapons at the expense of safeguarding them, and didn’t have a game plan in place in case they were leaked or stolen.
The CIA report revealed lax cybersecurity measures by the specialized unit and the niche information technology systems that it relies upon, which are separate from the systems more broadly used by everyday agency employees. The report said that because the stolen data were on a system that lacked user activity monitoring, it was not detected until WikiLeaks announced it in March 2017.
The report, prepared by the CIA’s WikiLeaks Task Force, suggests the CIA should have been better prepared in light of devastating data breaches at other intelligence agencies. The hacking tools compromise occurred about three years after Edward Snowden, a former contractor for the National Security Agency, confiscated classified information about the NSA’s surveillance operations, and disclosed it.
CIA spokesman Timothy Barrett declined to comment on the report’s findings, but said the “CIA works to incorporate best-in-class technologies to keep ahead of and defend against ever-evolving threats.” “This broke. This is what happened,” Roche said. “We need to make sure this doesn’t happen again. How is that not a healthy thing for an organization that doesn’t have a public eye into what it’s doing?”
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