CIA's specialised hacking unit failed to protect its own systems from hackers, investigation finds

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CIA discovered the breach only after classified information was published by WikiLeaks

The theft of a trove of highly classified data from the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in 2016 happened because agency's specialised hacking unit failed to protect its own systems from hacker...

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