"Joins the American actions previously announced by MasterCard, PayPal, Bank Visa Europe and others to discuss no transactions of any type we have reason to believe are destined for the WikiLeaks" the Bank said in a release issued Friday. "" "" "This decision is based on our reasonable grounds to believe that the WikiLeaks can be engaged in activities which are, among other things, incompatible with our internal policies for the treatment of payments," said the Bank.
WikiLeaks, reaction, November 28, caused global controversy with a cache of 250,000 leaks U.S. Embassy cables, was rapid. "Is your company? "business with Bank of America" said the late WikiLeaks twitter message Friday. "Our advice is to place your funds somewhere safer."
Founder of WikiLeaks Julian Assange said in an interview with CNBC Friday as WikiLeaks soon free information about banks. In an interview with the magazine Forbes last month, he said that WikiLeaks was prepared to reveal information about a bank that would show "unethical practices".
In recent interviews, Assange did not name a speficic, but in an interview with IDG News Service Bank last year, he said "we're sitting on 5 GB of Bank of America, one of the drives of the Executive.
At this time, said Assange WikiLeaks was reflecting on how to present data. "This is a difficult problem." We might just dump everything into a single giant zip file, but we know for a fact that has a limited impact. To make an impact, it must be easy for people to dive and it looks and something to it. »
Recent publication of the Wikileaks from U.S. Embassy cables has aroused the wrath of Governments and a rash of attacks between WikiLeaks detractors and supporters.
In the midst of controversy, Amazon Web Services (AWS) has its servers WikiLeaks to break the rules of the service on the content which may injure others. Institutions PayPal and credit card payment for WikiLeaks service was interrupted.
Decline in services to financial institutions financial institutions have been affected and then with pro-WikiLeaks denial of service (DDoS) attacks.
Life Assange, meanwhile, has been discussed. Assange is wanted for questioning by the Swedish Government concerning the allegations of sexual assault of two women-related incidents in the month of August in the country. He was arrested earlier this month at the United Kingdom after the Sweden launched an arrest warrant. The United Kingdom High Court ruled that the Assange could be released on £ 240,000 ($ défrichait) on bail pending a hearing for the extradition of January.
U.s. Office of the Attorney General investigates Assange towards the release of the U.S. Embassy cables but has not yet charged.
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