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Group hacks TV website in WikiLeaks protest

A group of hackers angered by a PBS documentary about WikiLeaks has posted a fake news story on the website of the U.S. public broadcaster PBS claiming that dead rapper Tupac Shakur was alive and well.

Apologists for WikiLeaks, Bradley Manning hack PBS

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Close on the heels of Lockheed Martin admitting that it had been hacked, it has emerged that the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) has been hacked and login and password information pertaining to employees as well as outside users of the site have been compromised.

Journalist Fowler terms WikiLeaks founder Assange a professional

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ABC journalist Andrew Fowler, fundraiser for the release of the Wikileaks vedio 2007 US military attacks on Baghdad where civilians and journalists were killed, said Wikileaks is a by-product of the high level of security placed on information in Western countries.
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Ex-WikiLeaks spokesman attacks Assange gag orders

A former WikiLeaks spokesman has condemned Julian Assange for demanding workers for the website sign confidentiality agreements threatening penalties of up to 12 million British pounds ($19.5 million).
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Anonymous Releases BofA emails

BofA Emails May Be Less Than Meets The Eye

Anonymous, the hacker collective, has released emails from Bank of America that a former employee says show the bank improperly foreclosed on homes during the financial crisis, but the emails seem to have little to do with home loans.
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Hacker group plans BofA e-mail release Monday

Anonymous, a hacker group sympathetic to WikiLeaks, plans to release e-mails obtained from Bank of America Corp early Monday morning, according to posts on the group's Twitter feed.
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Anonymous Threatens To Post Info On Bradley Manning's Guards

Anonymous is giving the U.S. military until Monday to improve its treatment of Bradley Manning, the U.S. army private accused of leaking secrets to Wikileaks, or it will post the personal information of the guards and commanders at the base where he is being held.
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DreamWorks options movie rights to WikiLeaks books

The DreamWorks studio has optioned movie rights to a pair of books about WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and his controversial Website that is bent on revealing government secrets, company officials said on Thursday.
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U.S. files 22 new charges against WikiLeaks soldier

The U.S. military said it has brought 22 new charges against a soldier accused of leaking hundreds of thousands of sensitive U.S. government documents that were later published by the website WikiLeaks.
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Bush cancels conference visit over Assange invite

Former President George W. Bush on Friday canceled a scheduled appearance at a business leaders' conference in Denver after learning that organizers also invited WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.
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UK court agrees Assange extradition to Sweden

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who rocked the U.S. government by publishing thousands of secret diplomatic memos, must be extradited to Sweden to face sex crimes allegations, a British judge ruled on Thursday.
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Assange lawyer says Swedish PM prejudices case

A lawyer for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange accused Sweden's prime minister on Friday of damaging his client's chances of a fair trial for alleged sex crimes by portraying him as public enemy number one.
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Book describes internal WikiLeaks tensions

Julian Assange's former right-hand man on the Wikileaks website denounces Assange as an irresponsible, autocratic bully who once threatened to kill him in a book launched on Thursday.
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WikiLeaks crippled by ex-associates, sources say

WikiLeaks's ability to receive new leaks has been crippled after a disaffected programer unplugged a component which guaranteed anonymity to would-be leakers, activists and journalists who have worked with the site say.

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