Bank of America checks for thousands of documents in the search for leaks, fearing revelations WikiLeaks

Bank of America, appears to be seriously frightened by threats to the site WikiLeaks to publish information showing the corruption of an American banks: the head of service to cope with the risks Bruce Thompson has formed a committee of 15-20 people, which examines thousands of internal documents in an attempt to identify the source of information leakage. WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange previously threatened to disclose documents on the activities of one of the largest U.S. banks, which, he said, show that the bank has developed "ecosystem of corruption", the source of incriminating documents was the computer of one of the directors of the bank. So now the Bank of America is trying to figure out, did not lose anyone from their leaders and their computer was not whether intrusion into the databases of the bank. He also addressed a number of companies to enhance security measures and legal advice. Recall that in December, Bank of America announced that it will not handle payments related to WikiLeaks. Thus, he joined the boycott, which other financial institutions - for example, MasterCard, PayPal and VISA Europe - staged under the pressure of U.S. authorities, annoyed by WikiLeaks for the publication of confidential State Department telegrams to foreign ambassadors. Assange never said that was referring to Bank of America, like the newspaper The New York Times. But assumed that it was he, the biggest U.S. bank, will become a victim of blackmail relief, which should occur at the beginning of this year. By the year prior to his famous threat Assange already said in an interview that his supporters have at their disposal a computer hard drive with one of the leaders of The Bank of America, containing the 5 gigabytes of data (ie, more than 200,000 pages of text) and think how to present these data. After the threats made by Assange to the unnamed bank Bank of America shares fell 3%, and although after that they rose again hanging over the bank threat remains real. Perhaps Assange received the documents not directly from the bank, and from state regulatory bodies to which they were passed during the test the lawfulness of the acquisition of Merrill Lynch in 2009-2010. The first mention Assange on the hard drive from the Bank of America coincided with passages in the October 2009 Congressional committee hearing on Oversight and Government Reform, which focused on the merger with Merrill Lynch, and were accompanied by large volumes of requests for information from the bank. Documents could escape and when discussing another deal - the acquisition of Countrywide Financial, dealing with loans to purchase real estate. Documents may contain inaccurate information and illegal financial transactions of the agency. Not the fact that the confidential information it obtained from the authorities. After all, regulatory authorities emphasize that they had received information from a bank in the form of securities or floppies, but not hard drives. In recent years, WikiLeaks has published leaks from other private banks, for example, the British Barclays and Swiss Julius Baer, ??but they have not attracted such public attention, as these revelations. Source: NEWSru.com