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Theft of CIA’s ‘Vault 7’ Secrets Tied to ‘Woefully Lax” Security

An internal investigation into the 2016 CIA breach condemned the agency s security measures, saying it focused more on building up cyber tools than keeping them secure Part of the investigation revealed sensitive cyber weapons were not compartmented and government cybersecurity researchers shared systems administrator-level passwords. At least 180 gigabytes (up to as much as 34 terabytes of information) was stolen in the breach, the report said roughly equivalent to 11.6 million to 2.2 billion electronic document pages.

Source: https://threatpost.com/theft-of-cias-vault-7-secrets-tied-to-woefully-lax-security/156591/

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