Cybersecurity
WikiLeaks Says Ecuador Cut Internet Access of Julian Assange
- Assange has been under Ecuadorian asylum in London since ’12
- Group has leaked e-mails, documents to stir up U.S. election
Julian Assange inside the Ecuadorian embassy in London.
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Ecuador has cut off WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange’s internet access within the South American country’s London embassy, WikiLeaks said in a statement on its website Monday.
“We can confirm Ecuador cut Assange’s Internet access Saturday, 5 p.m. GMT,” the group said on its Twitter account. WikiLeaks’ subsequently posted a series of e-mails purported by WikiLeaks to be from personal accounts of U.S. presidential candidate Hilary Clinton’s campaign chief, John Podesta. Ecuador’s Foreign Ministry declined to comment on Assange’s internet access.