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jaaronJust recently a very well known website called 'wiki leaks' faced cyber attack on Tuesday. The officials were forced to collapse their website work due to the cyber attack on wiki.
The officials believe that the anti secrecy organization has leaked thousands of secret information regarding the state department cables. The hackers also revealed some the confidential details about the US embassy sources which the embassy officials into great distress. The associated press stated that more approximately 2,000 cables of wiki were hacked by the hackers.
Victoria Nuland, a spokesperson from the state department shared his views about the cyber attack at wiki and stated that in addition to damage our diplomatic efforts, such cyber attacks also puts an individual's security at risk and also threatens the national security.
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jaaronFor the past few days, speculation was ripe that WikiLeaks was looming under a threat of cyber attacks. On Tuesday, WikiLeaks' Twitter page had an update saying"WikiLeaks.org is presently under attack", which was later clarified to be a cyber attack in another twitter feed.
Until recently, rumor had it that a password to WikiLeaks' entire database – a collection of about 250,000 US State Department cables – had been hacked. On Thursday, Australian newspaper The Age, reported that the password had indeed been discovered, and all data to WikiLeaks website was now available. WikiLeaks is now being severely criticized internationally for not being able to maintain its internal security. What unnerves the US is that the cables in the database are raw and unedited, unlike what is released by WikiLeaks, and has a lot of sensitive information, including diplomatic sources and names of intelligence officers.
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DonkeyHoteyWikiLeaks, the whistle blowing organization and The Guardian's legal tangles increased with the latter hitting back at the Wiki accusations by staunchly denying all of them.
The tango was initiated by Wiki, when it accused its former media partner of betrayal of trust as its journalists allegedly published access passwords to an archive of uncensored diplomatic cables. It is claimed the paper's actions using Wiki information will place US informants, human rights activists and others at risk of harm or detention.
Wiki also acknowledged that it "has commenced pre-litigation action" against The Guardian and an individual in Germany – believed to be former Wiki spokesperson Daniel Domscheit-Berg – for disclosing the password to the 'insurance' files "for personal gain".
In a statement released on Thursday, the paper said, "It is nonsense to suggest The Guardian's WikiLeak book has compromised security in any way."
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