When did Wikileaks become famous?

Julian Assange the founder of wikileaks was born in 1971, he is a journalist and computer programmer. He has so many history of system hacking since when he was still young. Julian Assange's wikileaks was founded in 2006. And it's main focus is to be collecting and sharing confidential and classified information on an international level.

In 2010 wikileaks came to limelight and became famous after he leaked and published a list of unauthorized information provided by Chelsea Manning about the popular cablegate also known diplomatic cables. After wikileaks leaked part of the hundreds of thousands documents, it became the talk of the town. And the released is believed to be the highest of wikileaks release so far. Julian Assange was named The Time magazine 'person of the year's in 2010.