Wikileaks Stories
‘WIKILEAKS: Inside Julian Assange's War on Secrecy’ – the media deal, Assange’s real father & Cablegate
Authored by award-winning journalists David Leigh and Luke Harding, the book titled WIKILEAKS: Inside Julian Assange's War on Secrecy was published on Monday by Guardian Books.
WikiLeaks' Julian Assange for Nobel Peace Prize?
Quoting observers of the Nobel Prize, an international news agency has reported that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange may be one among the nominations this year.
Blocked in Egypt, Twitter speaks on freedom of expression
Being the first of the social media websites to be blocked in Egypt amid anti-government protests, Twitter has churned out a blog on the importance of freedom of expression.
Tough times for diplomacy in post-WikiLeaks world
If ministers and diplomats have learned a single lesson from the WikiLeaks saga, it is this: write nothing down.
Is Qaddafi of Libya now getting worried?
Libyan leader Moammar Qaddafi finds himself in a potentially dangerous predicament.
Wikileaks helped spark Tunisia revolt : FP
Wikileaks, by releasing damning cables from the U.S. ambassador to Tunisia, impacted the country's decision to revolt.
WikiLeaks: The Next Generation
All across Europe, from Brussels to the Balkans, a new generation of WikiLeaks-style websites is sprouting.
U.S. secretly supported Egyptian opposition groups: Wikileaks
The U.S. government secretly supported leading opposition figures in Egypt who have been preparing to topple President Hosni Mubarak for the past three years, according to cables released by Wikileaks.
WikiLeaks founder says enjoys making banks squirm
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange says he enjoys making banks squirm thinking they might be the next targets of his website which has published U.S. diplomatic and military secrets.
Exclusive: The Next Generation of WikiLeaks
All across Europe, from Brussels to the Balkans, a new generation of WikiLeaks-style websites is sprouting.
Wikileaks spin-off group launches new site
A group led by the former deputy to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange launched a new site to aid whistleblowers on the sidelines of the Davos meeting of the global business elite Friday.
Exclusive: WikiLeaks: The Next Generation
All across Europe, from Brussels to the Balkans, a new generation of WikiLeaks-style websites is sprouting.
WikiLeaks documents reveal U.S.’s contradictory relationship with Mubarak
U.S. diplomats were gravely concerned about Egypt’s poor human rights record (including the use of torture by police and the jailing of dissidents) and expressed misgivings about President Hosni Mubarak’s plans to allow his son to succeed him, according to cables released by WikiLeaks.
UK police arrest WikiLeaks backers for Web attacks
British police arrested five young men on Thursday as they and U.S. authorities conducted searches as part of a probe into Internet activists who carried out cyber attacks against groups they viewed as enemies of the WikiLeaks website.
FBI conducts searches tied to WikiLeaks cyber attacks
The FBI said on Thursday it executed more than 40 search warrants in the United States as part of its investigation into cyber attacks allegedly by a group called Anonymous that had backed WikiLeaks.
Update: Egyptian Gov't Web Sites Under Attack
Web sites run by the Egyptian government are experiencing service problems, possibly as a result of denial of service attacks mounted by the collective known as Anonymous
Anonymous Asks For DDoS Attack On Key Egyptian Sites
The group called Anonymous has set up a Facebook page and is asking people to take part in distributed denial of service attacks on Egyptian government web sites.
Corrected: WikiLeaks founder Assange slams Swiss banker arrest
(corrects figure in Jan. 23 story, 14th paragraph, to $22 trillion from $22 billion)
WikiLeaks founder Assange slams Swiss banker arrest
The founder of whistleblower site WikiLeaks attacked Switzerland on Sunday for arresting a Swiss banker on suspicion of breaching banking secrecy instead of investigating the tax evasion he said he had uncovered.
Ex-banker linked to WikiLeaks to be held in custody over weekend
The Swiss prosecutor's office said on Friday former banker Rudolf Elmer would be detained over the weekend after police questioned him this week over possible fresh breaches of Swiss bank law.
Swiss ex-banker faces new probe over WikiLeaks data
Police questioned former banker Rudolf Elmer on Thursday over possible fresh breaches of Swiss bank law for giving data to WikiLeaks this week, a day after he was found guilty of violating bank secrecy.
Swiss arrest ex-banker for giving data to WikiLeaks
Swiss police arrested ex-banker Rudolf Elmer on Wednesday for giving data to Wikileaks, hours after he was found guilty of breaching strict Swiss bank secrecy laws in another case.
Swiss re-arrest ex-banker for giving data to WikiLeaks
Swiss police on Wednesday arrested former banker Rudolf Elmer on fresh charges of breaching Swiss bank secrecy law for giving data to WikiLeaks, hours after he was found guilty of another secrecy offense.
Wikileaks-connected Swiss banker found guilty in bizarre one-day trial
The former Swiss banker who is set expose the bank accounts of wealthy tax-evaders and other prominent individuals to WikiLeaks, has himself been found guilty in a Swiss court of having violated the country’s band secrecy laws through some previous disclosures of bank data.
Swiss ex-banker linked to WikiLeaks found guilty but not jailed
A Swiss court found former banker Rudolf Elmer guilty on Wednesday of breaching strict banking secrecy for publicizing private client data and of threatening an employee at his former firm Julius Baer.
U.S. officials privately say WikiLeaks damage limited
Internal U.S. government reviews have determined that a mass leak of diplomatic cables caused only limited damage to U.S. interests abroad, despite the Obama administration's public statements to the contrary.
WikiLeaks disclosures claims job of top German tech executive
The boss of a German technology company has apparently lost his job as a result of comments attributed to him in a WikiLeaks document.
Swiss bank material won’t be released soon: WikiLeaks
WikiLeaks will probably not release any sensitive information it obtains from Swiss bank renegade Rudolf Elmer, according to press reports citing WikiLeaks boss Julian Assange and others sources connected to Elmer.
WikiLeaks unlikely to release Swiss bank data soon
WikiLeaks is unlikely anytime soon to make public material provided to it this week by Swiss bank whistleblower Rudolf Elmer, according to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and sources close to Elmer.
Swiss whistleblower hands bank data to WikiLeaks
A former Swiss private banker handed over data on hundreds of offshore bank account holders to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange on Monday, saying he wanted to draw attention to financial abuses.