WikiLeaks papers the real deal, say US officials aware of CIA breach in 2016
Investigators focus on contractors as likely source of leaks as Germany says it will investigate veracity of papers
US intelligence and law enforcement officials said on Wednesday they have been aware since the end of last year of a security breach at the CIA that led to anti-secrecy group WikiLeaks publishing agency documents on its hacking tools. The officials, who asked not to be identified, told Reuters they believed the documents published by WikiLeaks on Tuesday were authentic. Investigators were focusing on CIA contractors as the likely source of passing materials to WikiLeaks, the officials said. The group published what it said were nearly 8,000 pages of internal CIA discussions about hacking techniques used between 2013 and 2016. In Germany on Wednesday, the chief federal prosecutor’s office said it would review the WikiLeaks documents because some suggested that the CIA ran a hacking hub from the US consulate in Frankfurt. "We’re looking at it very carefully," a spokesman for the federal prosecutor’s office said. "We will initiate an investigation if we see evidence of concrete crimina...
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