Ecuador, which has withdrawn its asylum to Australian journalist Julian Assange, said he suffered computer attacks, although they did not affect his government sites.
"We managed to intervene in an institutional mail and on a page of a municipality," tweeted the Minister of the Interior, Maria Paula Romo, without indicating any officials. "Despite cyber attacks in recent days, no central government site or key parts of the private sector has been intruded or misdirected," she added. For a few hours Saturday, the photograph of Julian Assange occupied the homepage of the site of the municipality of La Mana, in the center of the country. There was an image of the founder of WikiLeaks after his arrest Thursday at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London.
"Despite cyber attacks in recent days, no central government site or key parts of the private sector has been intruded or unpublished."
That same Thursday, Maria Paula Romo had assured that a "close" of Julian Assange was involved in a plan of destabilization of the Ecuadorian President Lenin Moreno, in association with the former Foreign Minister, Ricardo Patiño, of the previous Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa (2007-2017), as well as "two Russian hackers who also live in Ecuador". This "close" is the 36-year-old Swede Ola Bini, who was held in custody on Thursday while attempting to leave for Japan. He was charged with attacking computer systems on Saturday, according to the Ecuadorian Prosecutor's Office.
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47-year-old Julian Assange had fled to the Ecuadorian embassy in London in 2012 to avoid being extradited to Sweden, where he had been accused of rape, a case since filed. The founder of WikiLeaks in 2006 was arrested under a US extradition request for "hacking", which will be reviewed during a hearing on May 2, and a warrant issued in June 2012 by the court British for failure to appear in court, an offense punishable by one year in prison. He is accused of helping former US intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning obtain a password to access thousands of classified secret-defense documents.