Ecuador has claimed responsibility for cutting off Julian Assange's internet access, calling it a "temporary restriction" aimed at preventing him from interfering with the U.S. election. WikiLeaks twe
Rumors have swirled for months that if Hillary Clinton succeeds in her bid to become the next U.S. president, she would appoint Facebook chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg as Treasury Secretary.
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump wants to steal some of the Democratic Party’s spotlight during the Democratic Convention with yet another puzzling declaration. At <a target="_blank" hre
By now, it's pretty clear that Russian hackers are responsible for breaches of the Democratic National Committee networks that occurred last summer and in April of this year — several forensic secur
In a massive shake up just ahead of Monday’s convention in Philadelphia, Florida congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz announced today that she will be stepping down from her role as the head
WikiLeaks has put online a searchable database of thousands of emails sent to and from top figures in the Democratic National Committee — many of which contain personal and financial information of
All day, the Internet has been abuzz with stories culled from the "Panama Papers" -- roughly 2.6 terabytes of documents, related to hundreds of thousands of offshore companies, leaked from a small, re
WikiLeaks on Wednesday posted documents allegedly from CIA director John Brennan's email account, including Brennan's application for security clearance and papers about U.S. torture policy.
The do
It was easy to see it coming. WikiLeaks founder <a target="_blank" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_Assange">Julian Assange</a> formally asked for asylum in France in a letter sent to <a tar
Why NSA, what big ears you have. WikiLeaks just released a new collection of documents which give a particularly clear picture of the NSA’s spying patterns on its allies. The docs, dubbed R
Following <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2015/06/23/new-wikileaks-docs-claim-nsa-monitored-communications-of-french-presidents/">last week's eavesdropping reports</a>, <a target="_blank" href="https:
It seems like Sony just can’t catch a break. On Thursday, WikiLeaks added 276,394 more private documents, emails and financial files, leaked from the embattled tech and media giant, into its datab
As part of its ongoing Spyfiles series of posts, Wikileaks has released the back and front-end systems used by multiple governments to spy on journalists, dissidents, and others. The files appear to b
The long-running trial of WikiLeaks informer Pfc. Bradley Manning has come to an end. A military judge sentenced Manning to 35 years in prison. On July 30, Manning was found not guilty of ‘aiding th
The long-running trial of Wikileaks whistle-blower Pfc. <a target="_blank" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bradley_Manning">Bradley Manning</a> came to a key (if preliminary) <a href="https://techc
While the world has become fixated on the NSA's domestic and foreign surveillance activities in the past months, the trial of Private First Class Bradley Manning is coming to a close. Concluding argum
<a target="_blank" href="http://www.wikileaks.org/">Wikileaks</a>' website is up again after over a week of denial of service attacks, though as of this writing I'm still seeing many errors on the sit
Wikileaks has just announced that they're processing a <a target="_blank" href="http://wikileaks.org/syria-files/">trove of 2.4 million emails</a> from and to Syrian officials that details the links b
You may agree with Wikileaks' mission. Or you may think they're a menace. Or perhaps something in between. But here's one thing you can't deny: they're an organization, with a leader, a name, and (how
<img src="https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/screen-shot-2011-07-01-at-6-04-57-pm.png" alt="" /><a href="http://www.wikileaks.com">WikiLeaks</a> and its credit card processing partner D
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