From NBC:
The anti-secrecy organization WikiLeaks posted thousands of documents Tuesday purporting to reveal CIA hacking secrets, including suggestions that the spy agency is able to turn smart televisions into listening devices and defeat encrypted communications apps such as Signal or WhatsApp.
NBC News has not verified the authenticity of the documents, but computer experts and former intelligence officials were treating them as real. A CIA spokesman declined to comment.
“We do not comment on the authenticity or content of purported intelligence documents,” the CIA’s Jonathan Liu told NBC News.
As part of its release, WikiLeaks made the extraordinary claim that the CIA “lost control of the majority of its hacking arsenal,” including a series of tools that experts say could be turned against Americans. U.S. officials would neither confirm nor deny that allegation.