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: The leak prompted a massive FBI manhunt, eventually leading to the conviction of former CIA software engineer Joshua Schulte , who was identified as the source of the data. Vault 7: The CIA’s cyber capabilities escape from the lab

: The decrypted contents of that file exposed a massive global covert hacking program, including: 2017-02-10.7z

: A program developed with the UK’s MI5 that could turn Samsung smart TVs into covert microphones while they appeared to be off. : The leak prompted a massive FBI manhunt,

: Starting in early February 2017, WikiLeaks began posting cryptic tweets and clues about a forthcoming series titled "Vault 7." As part of their standard procedure, they released the encrypted 7z archive 2017-02-10.7z to the public as a "dead man's switch" or insurance policy. intelligence history

: The .7z extension indicates it was compressed using the 7-Zip utility, which supports high-level AES encryption.

The filename refers to a critical piece of the "Vault 7" leak, an massive archive of CIA hacking tools published by WikiLeaks in March 2017.

The appearance of 2017-02-10.7z marked the beginning of one of the most significant security breaches in U.S. intelligence history.