Whistle-blower website WikiLeaks plans to release hundreds of thousands of internal documents related to a major American bank early next year, according to a media report.
In an interview with Forbes magazine earlier this month, WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange said a "mega leak" related to a US bank will be put up on its website.
"It's not as big a scale as the Iraq material, but it's either tens or hundreds of thousands of documents, depending on how you define it," Assange said.
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Now, WikiLeaks threatens to take down a big US bank
Image: WikiLeaks screen grab.Without disclosing specific details, he said the leaked documents would be hosted on the WikiLeaks website early next year and would be related to a big American bank.
In reply to a question on what he hoped to achieve by making the leaked documents available in the public domain, Assange said, "It will give a true and representative insight into how banks behave at the executive level in a way that will stimulate investigations and reforms, I presume."
Assange compared the leaked documents of the US bank to the emails that were revealed after the collapse of US energy major Enron.
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Now, WikiLeaks threatens to take down a big US bank
Image: US flag."There's only one similar example. It's like the Enron emails... When Enron collapsed, through court processes, thousands and thousands of emails came out that were internal and it provided a window into how the whole company was managed," he added.
Assange said that WikiLeaks is also in possession of unprocessed information on pharmaceutical companies, besides "some material on spying by a major government on the tech industry. Industrial espionage."
WikiLeaks has already started releasing thousands of highly-confidential US diplomatic communications.
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