Monday 27 February 2012

WikiLeaks to publish Confidential Emails on Website

Whistleblower website WikiLeaks has announced to publish confidential emails from the global geopolitical analysis firm Stratfor, detailing everything of the company.

The company emails from July 2004 to December 2011 will be exposed on WikiLeaks on Monday. It will reveal Stratfor's "web of informers, pay-off structure, payment-laundering techniques and psychological methods.

WikiLeaks said that the contents of more than five million confidential emails of the US-based intelligence firm in past seven years are being exposed on the anti-secrecy group site.

The documents have been analysed with the help of 25 publications around the world including Rolling Stone in the United States, L’Espresso in Italy and The Hindu in India.

However, it did not disclose how the emails were obtained by the site. But Stratfor acknowledged that its data severs were hacked in December by a group of hackers known as Anonymous.

WikiLeaks claimed that Stratfor has kept many documents of the group and its founder Julian Assange, who is now under house arrest in Britain in connection with allegations of sex crimes. The documents contain information about the US government's attack against WikiLeaks and Assange.

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