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WikiLeaks

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WikiLeaks is an international social network project operating since July 2007. The goal of the project is declared "untraceable publication and analysis of documents that have become available due to information leakage." To date, 1.2 million documents are in the project database. In Russia, WikiLeaks documents are analyzed and published under an official agreement with WikiLeaks by the Russian Reporter magazine.

History

2024: Ex-CIA programmer gets 40 years in prison for data transfer for WikiLeaks

A court in New York sentenced former CIA programmer Joshua Schulte to 40 years in prison in the case of the largest leak of a series of top-secret materials. The press service of the US Department of Justice announced this on February 1, 2024. Read more here.

2021: $400,000 worth of bitcoins donated to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange

In early January 2021, it became known about the donation of about $400 thousand in favor of Julian Assange. As reported in the Whale Alert Twitter account (specializing in tracking cryptocurrency transactions), someone sent 8.48 bitcoins (about $280 thousand) in support of the founder of WikiLeaks. Another user translated 4.51 bitcoins (about $125 thousand). These funds are aimed at the legal defense of Assange and the WikiLeaks project. Read more here.

2020: Wikileaks whistleblower tried to take her own life

On March 11, 2020, former intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning tried to commit suicide in a pre-trial detention center. Manning is hospitalized and in stable condition. Read more here.

2017: WikiLeaks reveals CIA-used ways to hack computers and mobile devices

In 2017, WikiLeaks published a new portion of classified CIA data. They, in particular, describe ways to hack and infect devices Apple (more), here office computers (more) here and security cameras (more). here