WikiLeaks server, a "relic of our time", sells for US$33,000


  • TECH
  • Friday, 13 Sep 2013

FILE PHOTO: The logo of the Wikileaks website is pictured on a smartphone in this picture illustration taken in Tokyo November 29, 2010. REUTERS/Toru Hanai/File Photo

STOCKHOLM: The server used by pro-transparency organisation WikiLeaks when it released secret documents in 2010 about the US wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and a massive trove of diplomatic cables was sold for US$33,000 (RM108,652.50) on Thursday. 

Swedish Internet firm Bahnhof, which hosted WikiLeaks at the time, sold the Dell server on online marketplace eBay.  

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