Security matter
WikiLeaks has leaked sensitive personal information belonging to hundreds of innocent individuals worldwide, including some residing in several highly repressive countries, The Associated Press reported this week.
The organization has revealed private credit card data, medical information, personal addresses and other data of various individuals, including the identification as gay of a Saudi Arabian who had been arrested, and the identities of two teenage rape victims, along with other highly vulnerable people, the AP investigation shows.
The documents the AP analyzed contain a troubling array of sensitive data linked to innocent private citizens who in many cases were not the targets of the organization's periodic data dumps. WikiLeaks has a massive trove of more than a half million documents, which include everything from Democratic National Committee emails to Saudi Arabian Foreign Ministry and Turkish government files.
The AP report comes at a sensitive time for WikiLeaks, which sparked a controversy when it published Democratic National Committee emails suspected of coming from Russian government-sponsored hackers. The FBI is investigating the case.
WikiLeaks is led by Julian Assange, who's been holed up for years in Ecuador's London embassy to avoid extradition to Sweden, where he's wanted for questioning on rape allegations.
From TECHNEWSWORLD