A big U.S. bank is the target of the next megadata dump by WikiLeaks, the online site that this week released a trove of confidential U.S. diplomatic cables from around the world. In an interview with Forbes, WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange compared the upcoming release, scheduled for next year, to the damaging emails that came out after the collapse of Enron Corp. He did not identify the bank.
That’s not stopping others from speculating.
Huffington Post dug up a 2009 interview in which Assange says WikiLeaks had obtained and was “sitting on” five gigabytes of data from Bank of America Corp. (BAC), suggesting it could be the subject of the data trove Assange alludes to in his Forbes interview.
Assange told Forbes the bank-related documents would uncover “the regular decision making that turns a blind eye to and supports unethical practices: the oversight that’s not done, the priorities of executives, how they think they’re fulfilling their own self-interest.”
Magazine Web site: http://blogs.forbes.com/andygreenberg/2010/11/29/wikileaks-julian-assange-wants-to-spill-your-corporate-secrets
