Webthe massachusetts air national guardsman who is accused of leaking hundreds of u. s. Classified documents on a gaming chat server was charged on friday as federal prosecutors disclosed more. Webas alleged in the indictment and court filings, the defendants, along with dozens of identified prc ministry of state security (mss) intelligence officers, contractor hackers, and support personnel, were members of a hacking group operating in the prc and known within the cybersecurity community as advanced persistent threat 31 (the. Webmr assange has been behind bars since april 2019, when police arrested him inside the ecuadorian embassy where he had been holed up for seven years, claiming political asylum. Weba whistleblower named christopher wylie went public in 2018 exposing how millions of facebook users' personal data was accessed, without the users' consent, by the u. k.
