WikiLeaks is in the night from Sunday to Monday began with the publishing of e-mail, the American intelligence company Stratfor. WikiLeaks does not say how the e-mails, but Stratfor was at the end of last year have been hacked.
At 1 o’clock in the afternoon, local time, WikiLeaks at a press conference in London more information about the publication, but at 12 o’clock at night, the site has already begun with the publication of internal e-mails.
The ‘Global Intelligence Files’ include e-mails between July 2004 and december 2011 and to the Us intelligence company Stratfor are sent.
From the e-mails show, according to WikiLeaks that Stratfor not a company that only analyses, but itself almost like an intelligence service acts, without the government, there is monitoring. The company would be a lot of ex-personnel of the American government in the service have, and a lot of work to do for the same government.
In a reaction called Stratfor, the publication of WikiLeaks a “deplorable, unfortunate and illegal privacy violation’ and ‘a direct attack on Stratfor’. Stratfor says not to like to comment on the authenticity of the messages, but notes that this should be read as volatile messages that are written with the intent to only by the recipients to be read.
The klokkenluiderssite does not specify how the e-mails have been obtained, but at the end of last year was the defence firm hacked. Anonymous claimed the hack on, and has published more information of Stratfor customers, including the Dutch. That there is e-mails dating from no later than december 2011 will be published, makes it likely that WikiLeaks in this way the data is come; that was also the month where the company was hacked. According to Stratfor itself, the e-mails did indeed come from the Anonymous-hack.
Ultimately, five million e-mails will be published, but that doesn’t happen at one time, just as in the “Cablegate”, the publication of internal American diplomatic traffic. The e-mails are in batches released; WikiLeaks promises that in the coming weeks a lot of interesting messages in between will sit.
WikiLeaks is working with 25 media, that the e-mails to analyze them before they are released. Under that media is, for example, the American Rolling Stone, but also publications from Pakistan, Egypt and India. When Cablegate was WikiLeaks criticism because only the Western media were chosen to work with.
According to WikiLeaks show the e-mails that Stratfor regularly dubious of the others. So wanted the ‘control’ about an Israeli informant on financial, psychological and even sexual way. In that way, information had to be obtained about the medical condition of Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez.
Also would the company informants, including government officials and journalists, have money in situations in exchange for information. Payments would be done via Swiss bank accounts and prepaid credit cards.
WikiLeaks and its founder Julian Assange would in the e-mails frequently are called; in 4000 e-mails came in one of these two terms, claims to the site. The company would internally have discussed how the unrest by WikiLeaks publications was created could use to get customers.
Update, 7:44: Reaction Stratfor added