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WikiLeaks (/ ˈ w ɪ k i l iː k s /) is a non-profit media organisation and publisher of leaked documents.It is funded by donations [13] and media partnerships. It has published classified documents and other media provided by anonymous sources. [14]
Leigh said he believed the key was a temporary one that would expire within days. WikiLeaks supporters disseminated the encrypted files to mirror sites in December 2010 after WikiLeaks experienced cyber-attacks. When WikiLeaks learned what had happened it notified the US State Department.
Among the most potent in the cache of files published by WikiLeaks was video of a 2007 Apache helicopter attack by American forces in Baghdad that killed 11 people, including two Reuters journalists.
Initially North Korean authorities had refused to arrest him and sought to return him on the next flight, but Miller refused. Miller had brought a notebook into North Korea incorrectly claiming he was a computer hacker involved with WikiLeaks and having attempted to access files at U.S. military bases in South Korea.
(Reuters) - Julian Assange, founder of whistleblower media group WikiLeaks, is due to strike a plea bargain this week that would free him from jail and allow him to return home to Australia after ...
[7] [8] [5] Ball left WikiLeaks after three months because of concerns regarding protecting the identity of vulnerable individuals in the leaked cables and Assange's attempts to secure WikiLeaks' funds for his own legal defence. [9] [10] In 2012 he co-authored a book with Charlie Beckett documenting his experiences, WikiLeaks: News in the ...
WikiLeaks did hide some names but then published 250,000 cables a year later without hiding the identities of people named in the papers. Weeks after the release of the largest document cache in 2010, a Swedish prosecutor issued an arrest warrant for Assange based on one woman’s allegation of rape and another’s allegation of molestation.
Jeremy Alexander Hammond [9] was born and raised in the Chicago suburb of Glendale Heights, Illinois, with his twin brother Jason. [2] [10] Hammond became interested in computers at an early age, programming video games in QBasic by age eight, and building databases by age thirteen.