Banks and WikiLeaks. Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. Wikileaks plans to make the Web a leakier place. News By Dan Nystedt October 9, 2009 04:27 AM ET IDG News Service - Wikileaks.org, the online clearinghouse for leaked documents, is working on a plan to make the Web leakier by enabling newspapers, human rights organizations, criminal investigators and others to embed an "upload a disclosure to me via Wikileaks" form onto their Web sites.
The upload system will give potential whistleblowers around the world the ability to leak sensitive documents to an organization or journalist they trust over a secure connection, while giving the receiver legal protection they might not otherwise enjoy. "We will take the burden of protecting the source and the legal risks associated with publishing the document," said Julien Assange, an advisory board member at Wikileaks, in an interview at the Hack In The Box security conference in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Once Wikileaks confirms the uploaded material is real, it will be handed over to the Web site that encouraged the submission for a period of time. WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange Wants To Spill Your Corporate Secrets - Andy Greenberg - The Firewall. Bank Of America Stock Takes Hit After WikiLeaks Rumors, Then Rebounds. UPDATE: Bank of America's stock rebounded in early trading Wednesday, rising .50 percent. ORIGINAL POST: Bank of America's stock took a hit on Tuesday, as rumors circulated that WikiLeaks could release a trove of the bank's secret -- and potentially "unethical" -- documents next year. As WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange cooly contemplates how best to "present" the data he says he has, investors in Bank of America are nervous: The bank's share price dropped 3.18 percent on Tuesday.
The information-leaking organization is sitting on a massive pile of internal documents from one of the big U.S. banks, Assange told Forbes, and an interview he gave last year suggests the big bank could be the country's biggest, Bank of America. According to Assange, his organization had five gigabytes of Bank of America documents in 2009, which the New York Times notes is roughly equivalent to 600,000 pages of information. Bank of America released a statement that expressed skepticism. Wall Street: Time to Panic About WikiLeaks - Deal Journal. Associated Press WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange After sending shudders through the diplomatic community and the military with its release of troves of documents in recent months, WikiLeaks’ has turned its sights to Wall Street.
Julian Assange, the secretive founder of WikiLeaks, told Forbes that he’s planning a leak early next year related to “a big U.S. bank.” We have one related to a bank coming up, that’s a megaleak. It’s not as big a scale as the Iraq material, but it’s either tens or hundreds of thousands of documents depending on how you define it….It will give a true and representative insight into how banks behave at the executive level in a way that will stimulate investigations and reforms, I presume. Bank of America Stock Declines on WikiLeaks Anticipation. Bank of America: Next Wikileaks Target? - MarketBeat.
Bank of America | Home | Personal. Bank of America (BofA_Careers) Bank of America (BofA_News) Bank of America (BofA_Community) WikiLeaks: Bank of America bans ALL t... WikiLeaks: We ask that all people who... WikiLeaks: Does your business do busi... Companies / Banks - Bank of America cuts off WikiLeaks payments. Bank of America Also Refuses to Handle WikiLeaks Payments. Financial giant Bank of America has added its name to the list of institutions dropping support for WikiLeaks, announcing that it has stopped handling any payments to or from the whistle-blowing website. The bank said in a statement to the Charlotte Observer, "This decision is based upon our reasonable belief that WikiLeaks may be engaged in activities that are, among other things, inconsistent with our internal policies for processing payments.
" As the huge American financial institution confidently declared Saturday that it was standing against the website headed by controversial figure Julian Assange, his WikiLeaks organization fired back a Twitter post urging consumers to stop doing business with Bank of America. "We ask that all people who love freedom close out their accounts at Bank of America," pleaded the WikiLeaks tweet. Bank of America's action is certain to tempt hackers who've named themselves "Operation Payback. " Wikileaks NEWS - Swiss banker who helped WikiLeaks faces trial - Yahoo! News.
Treasury Says It Cannot Sanction Wikileaks Or Julian Assange - Corruption Currents. The Treasury Department said it doesn’t have enough evidence to place sanctions on Wikileaks or its leader Julian Assange, Dow Jones Newswires reported. Leon Neal/AFP/Getty Images Julian Assange, leader of Wikileaks. Responding to Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y., who asked the department to add it to its blacklisted entities list maintained at the Office of Foreign Assets Control, the Treasury said none of its current programs can reach either Wikileaks or Assange. The Treasury administers but doesn’t create the criteria for sanctions; that power comes either legislatively or by executive order.
“We do not have evidence at this time as to Julian Assange or Wikileaks meeting criteria under which [Treasury] may designate persons and place them on the” sanctions list, a Treasury representative said in a statement.