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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