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Supporters of WikiLeaks Launch Attack

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It was just last week that our own Jared Wade wrote a post about how WikiLeaks’ next target may not be military or government affiliated at all; it could be your company.

Early next year, Julian Assange says, a major American bank will suddenly find itself turned inside out. Tens of thousands of its internal documents will be exposed on Wikileaks.org with no polite requests for executives’ response or other forewarnings. The data dump will lay bare the finance firm’s secrets on the Web for every customer, every competitor, every regulator to examine and pass judgment on.

The website that relies on truth in everything has gained a massive following of fanatic supporters. So fanatic, it seems, that they have retaliated against those who have recently wronged WikiLeaks or its founder, Julian Assange. Here’s a list of those companies or individuals who have fallen victim to cyberattacks launched by WikiLeaks supporters:

  • Mastercard.com — WikiLeaks relies on donations to keep running and it was Mastercard who processed such donations. Well, with the media firestorm around the website and Assange lately, the card company severed ties with the site.
  • Amazon.com — The giant online retailer decided to revoke server space it had once granted to WikiLeaks.
  • PayPal — The online payment service chose to cut off its commercial cooperation with WikiLeaks.

Other targets include the lawyer representing two women who have accused Assange of sexual abuse and PostFinance, Assange’s bank, which closed his account. The attacks have been organized and launch by a group of hackers called Anonymous. One of the members granted an interview to the New York Times.

That activist, Gregg Housh, said in a telephone interview that 1,500 activists were on online forums and chatrooms including Anonops.net, mounting mass and repeated “denial of service” attacks on sites that have moved against Mr. Assange and WikiLeaks in recent days. The hacker army has rallied around the theory that all the actions against the organization and against Mr. Assange, including the rape accusations, are politically motivated efforts to silence those challenging authority. “To all of us,” Mr. Housh said, “there is no distinction. He is a political prisoner and the two things are completely entwined.”

The group has been successful; the websites for Mastercard, PayPal and PostFinance were all experiencing difficulties. Even more frightening, Anonymous claims to be planning further attacks on company websites. So it is true then, WikiLeaks’ next target, either directly or indirectly, could be your company.

WikiLeaks’ Next Target? Your Company

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By now, I’m sure you’re familiar with WikiLeaks. (If not, read this good, introductory summary.) The whistle-blower company has released hundreds of thousands of documents about the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and, just this week, it made headlines worldwide by unveiling a new torrent of documents related to U.

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S. foreign policy and diplomacy. (Here are the Daily Beast’s “9 Most Shocking WikiLeaks Secrets.”)

Predictably, the company and its founder Julian Assange are not very popular among federal and military officials in Washington, D.C., many of whom see the release of such confidential documents as paramount to a criminal act of espionage against the United States.

Amidst the political firestorm, Assange has said that WikiLeaks’s next target will not be political or military — but corporate.

In a rare interview, Assange tells Forbes that the release of Pentagon and State Department documents are just the beginning.

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His next target: big business.

Early next year, Julian Assange says, a major American bank will suddenly find itself turned inside out.

Tens of thousands of its internal documents will be exposed on Wikileaks.org with no polite requests for executives’ response or other forewarnings. The data dump will lay bare the finance firm’s secrets on the Web for every customer, every competitor, every regulator to examine and pass judgment on.

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Risk managers are always looking for emerging risks. And being able to see the threats that lurk beyond the horizon can be what separates the good from the great. A few years ago, it would be hard for anyone to see this peril looming.

But here we are.

For companies, the threat may be even greater than that posed to the government and the military. Those institutions have time-tested procedures of secrecy and multiple levels of confidentiality to ensure everything remains on a need-to-know basis. Sensitive information is obviously getting released by people who think it should be in the public record, but we can probably be pretty sure that there is plenty of even more restricted information known in the halls of the White House, Pentagon and Congress that has not — and will never be — exposed to the masses

Businesses, too, have protections to keep the perhaps-incriminating or at-least-embarrassing details of their operations from seeing the light of day. But the proliferation of digital information — data that can be accessed by both employees and cyber-savvy outsiders — makes everything harder to protect. Most companies don’t have Apache helicopters and M-16-toting soldiers to protect their servers.

So all it would take is one whistle-blower with access to severely damage the reputation of the company — and perhaps imperil the freedom of its less-than-lawful execs.

For what it’s worth, Assange’s freedom is once again being threatened by those he has angered. Attempts to shut down the site in the past have almost all failed, however.

We’ll see if the latest hornet’s nest he has kicked will lead to any different results, but my guess is that the business risk of exposure at the hands of WikiLeaks — and the other imitators that will inevitably surface — will not be dissipating any time soon.