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WikiLeaks shut down by American hackers

Sat, 08/11/2012 - 15:25 — Dave Culver
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  • An administrator behind the official WikiLeaks account responded to the attacks on Thursday, writing, “No one is directly frightened of WikiLeaks. What they're frightened of is you seeing a successful example of independence.”
  • Wikileaks Founder Seeking Asylum

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The logo of the Wikileaks website is pictured on a smartphone.(Reuters  / Toru Hanai)

(August 9, 2012) WikiLeaks remains offline after days of distributed denial-of-service attacks rendered the website inaccessible. Now a group calling themselves AntiLeaks is taking credit and says their actions are in protest to the whistleblower site's founder.

Through Twitter on Wednesday, the self-proclaimed leader of a group going by the name AntiLeaks says that their organization is responsible for a barrage of DDoS attacks on WikiLeaks.org and other affiliated sites that has temporarily wiped one of the most controversial outlets for whistleblowing off the Web.

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Wikileaks Founder Seeking Asylum, China Radio International
Ecuador said it would wait until the end of the London Olympic Games to announce a decision on Assange's asylum request.
 

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