By March, an enormous national security hole was revealed thanks to a release on WikiLeaks dubbed “Vault 7”, which exposed information on CIA hacking, zero-day exploits that they had used, and finally that the lead security organization in the country is not invulnerable to security flaws. While consumer data has become less and less secure due to retail data breaches, it’s shocking that such a trove of information could be heisted from right under the noses of those whose job it is to protect some of the nation’s greatest secrets.
