{"id":27717,"date":"2014-11-26T23:44:37","date_gmt":"2014-11-27T04:44:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.opensource.im\/?p=27717"},"modified":"2014-11-26T23:44:37","modified_gmt":"2014-11-27T04:44:37","slug":"hacker-claims-he-stole-from-wikileaks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wikileaks\/hacker-claims-he-stole-from-wikileaks.php","title":{"rendered":"Hacker claims he stole from Wikileaks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>      Reuters    <\/p>\n<p>        Former associate of Julian Assange, Sigurdur Thordarsson        pleads guilty to embezzling from WikiLeaks after turning        informant to the FBI.      <\/p>\n<p>    An Icelandic computer hacker and former associate of Wikileaks    founder Julian Assange unexpectedly pleaded guilty on Wednesday    to embezzling 30 million Icelandic crowns (NZ$308,826) from the    organisation.  <\/p>\n<p>    Sigurdur Thordarsson's courtroom plea is the latest twist in    the saga of Wikileaks, which released thousands of secret US    embassy cables in 2010 and 2011, deeply embarrassing    Washington.  <\/p>\n<p>    Known as 'Siggi the Hacker', Thordarsson has previously said    that he turned an informant for the US Federal Bureau of    Investigation (FBI) in 2011, a year before Assange fled to the    Ecuadorian embassy in London to avoid extradition to Sweden    over sexual assault accusations that he has denied.  <\/p>\n<p>    In the run up to his Iceland trial, Thordarsson rejected    charges that he stole the proceeds of the sales of    Wikileaks-branded items, and his U-turn on Wednesday was a    surprise.  <\/p>\n<p>    \"After going over the charges thoroughly and speaking with my    client, he has decided to plead guilty to all charges,\"    Thordarsson's lawyer, Vilhjalmur Vilhjalmsson, told the    court.  <\/p>\n<p>    The lawyer would not make any comment after the court session,    including why Thordarsson had changed his mind.  <\/p>\n<p>    No date was set for sentencing in the case.  <\/p>\n<p>    Thordarsson posted a long description of his ties to    Wikileaks including photos of him with Assange, his dialogue    with the FBI and his defence against the fraud charges, on an    Icelandic news website in June 2013.  <\/p>\n<p><!-- Auto Generated --><\/p>\n<p>Continue reading here:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.stuff.co.nz\/technology\/digital-living\/63584078\/Hacker-claims-he-stole-from-Wikileaks\/RK=0\/RS=GNv1WoU_cA4gXqkTKHxOZOd8StA-\" title=\"Hacker claims he stole from Wikileaks\">Hacker claims he stole from Wikileaks<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Reuters Former associate of Julian Assange, Sigurdur Thordarsson pleads guilty to embezzling from WikiLeaks after turning informant to the FBI. An Icelandic computer hacker and former associate of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange unexpectedly pleaded guilty on Wednesday to embezzling 30 million Icelandic crowns (NZ$308,826) from the organisation<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wikileaks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27717"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27717\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}