The Vault 7 Wikileaks release is making a lot of headlines this week and US officials are now pointing the finger at CIA contractors for a likely breach of security, which they believe ended up with sensitive documents being handed over to Wikileaks. Those documents detail the agencies use of different hacking tools, among other things.

Two anonymous officials claim that there had been notice of the breach since last year. And since the documents have been released, the White House has responded in saying that they are “concerned” about the breach. They aren't looking to be any more transparent than the last administration and they've already uttered threats about holding those accountable under the full extent of the law, whoever is responsible for the leaked information.

Those two anonymous officials believe the documents that were leaked, to be official documents. And they say that companies who have contractors for the CIA, are now checking their data in order to see if any employees etc, had access to the sensitive material that is now being shared all over the internet.

Wikileaks has already claimed that the CIA lost control of the data and they even suggested that it might have been first circulated with former US government hackers and others, before ending up on Wikileaks the way that it did. Thus far, it's alleged that the CIA has declined to comment.

For more coverage on the incident, I recommend these two videos from We Are Change [ @lukewearechange ]:

