On 05/18/2017 12:46 AM, grarpamp wrote:

That points to two options. The first is that the files came from Hal
Martin. He's the NSA contractor who was arrested in August for
hoarding agency secrets in his house for two years.

   ...and they hung him out with the code. Busted him. Reeled the code
   back in. Distributed it as the "ShadowBrokers" as a honeypot with the
   'cover' that it was already out there so it COULDN'T be the Intel
   agencies, and when it didn't get them many nibbles on their poisoned
   pot, they just 'let it go', because as can be seen with the latest and
   greatest, the code was designed to attack Russian interests anyway, and
   they'll probably get Martin for releasing it.
   That's been my take all along, and still is.
   Ps. The people running the WannaCry ransomware op communicate better
   than most vendors.
   [1]https://twitter.com/fztalks/status/864852163230609408

References

   1. https://twitter.com/fztalks/status/864852163230609408