More than a quarter of a million unredacted copies of secret US diplomatic cables have shown up on the internet after a security breach at Wikileaks.
On Wednesday, the anti-secrecy organisation accused a reporter for The Guardian newspaper of disclosing the password that allowed access to the 251,000 US State Department cables. The password was allegedly included in WikiLeaks: Inside Julian Assange's War on Secrecy, a book published by The Guardian in February.
"A Guardian journalist has negligently disclosed top secret Wikileaks' decryption passwords to hundreds of thousands of unredacted unpublished US diplomatic cables," Wikileaks said in a blog post. "Guardian investigations editor, David Leigh, recklessly, and without gaining our approval, knowingly disclosed the decryption passwords in a book published by The Guardian. Leigh states the book was rushed forward to be written in three weeks — the rights were then sold to Hollywood."
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