After two days from Julian as‌sange’s arrest on Thursday at Ecuador’s London embassy, several government websites were hacked; including the official website of Ecuador, Ecuador Central Bank, the Interior Ministry and the Ecuadorian Council in the UK ...

An active hacking group under the name "AL1NE3737" has released a database containing the full name and password for 728 Ecuadorian government employees.

According to the DefCon Laboratory, Ecuador’s websites have been attacked by denial of service attacks (DoS).

As Fairbanks noted, "The cyberattack reminiscent of Operation Avenge as‌sange, 2010, was initiated by a wider-scale Return effort that blocked services to WikiLeaks in one go. Distributed denial of service attack (DDOS).

This is when a website is flooded with fake traffic until it is in trouble and offline. "

After as‌sange’s arrest Thursday, more than 70 MPs and colleagues signed a letter calling for the UK to ensure that the founder of WikiLeaks was extradited to Sweden if the Swedish government requested it.

Sweden is considering whether to open a previous investigation of accusations of se‌ּxual as‌sault and as‌sault on as‌sange.

Meanwhile, the United States wants to try as‌sange on the biggest secret leak so far in 2010, the Justice Department hit him with an indictment claiming the founder of WikiLeaks helped the former intelligence analyst. The US military unlocked DoD passwords using Linux.

"The indictment alleges that in March 2010, as‌sange made a conspiracy with Chelsea Manning, a former intelligence analyst in the US Army, to as‌sist Manning in breaking passwords stored on computers. of the US Department of Defense connected to the Secret Internet Protocol Network (SIPRNet), a US government network used for classified documents and communications, "

Manning documents include videos of various US air strikes in Iraq and Afghanistan, as well as "Iraq War Diary" and "Afghan War Diary".

Assange faces five years in prison if convicted in the Manning case.