The posted file contained the cables to the BitTorrent file sharing network
These included the posting of the file , by a Wikileaks volunteer , in November 2010 to the BitTorrent file-sharing network , with a particular encryption passphrase embedded in it , unbeknownst to Julian Assange , editor-in-chief of Wikileaks ; the publication in February 2011 of that passphrase in a book by David Leigh of The Guardian , who believed it was a temporary password no longer in use ; and the publication of some of these details in August 2011 by Der Freitag , a German magazine , allowing others to piece the information together .
United States diplomatic cables leak