Cyber-security protections deployed for some of the nation’s most secret data was “woefully lax,” according to a 2017 intelligence brief that detailed cyber-security shortcomings at the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) following the largest-ever data breach at the agency in 2016.
The redacted brief and accompanying letter from Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), released Tuesday, laid bare a culture at the CIA’s Center for Cyber Intelligence (CCI) that “prioritized building cyber weapons at the expense of securing their own systems.”
