# Joshua Schulte

Joshua Adam Schulte (born September 25, 1988) is a former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) employee who was accused of being involved in a 2016 leak of classified documents to WikiLeaks, the Vault 7 documents, which The New York Times called "the largest loss of classified documents in the agency's history and a huge embarrassment for C.I.A. officials." == Career == Schulte graduated from the University of Texas at Austin in 2011 with a degree in computer engineering. While studying at the University of Texas, he began working for IBM. Then, from January 2010 to May 2010, he was employed as a systems engineer by the National Security Agency (NSA), including time spent within the Technology Directorate.Around the time that he ended his employment with the NSA, he began working for the CIA as a software engineer. By November 2016, he had left the CIA to move to New York, and, up until his arrest and detention on August 24, 2017, worked as a senior software engineer for Bloomberg LP. == Leaks of classified information == Schulte allegedly stole backup files from a program called Confluence on April 20, 2016, prior to the program's hacking tools being leaked.