I was not fully aware of the wikileaks case but I was intrigued to know what he was

being charged for so I investigated and found that he is accused of being guilty of
violating the terms of bail granted to him while he was fighting possible extradition
to Sweden, which exposes him to a maximum sentence of 12 months in jail in the
UK. He was also arrested at the request of the U.S. authorities." And the existence
of a U.S. extradition request for "computer crime" was later confirmed by a British
Home Office spokesman, a federal charge of conspiracy to commit computer
intrusion for agreeing to steal a password to break into a classified U.S.
government computer. Specifically, he faces one count of conspiring to receive
national defense information, seven counts of obtaining that information, nine
counts of disclosing this information and one count of conspiring to access a
computer. considered the largest leak in history up to that time and prompted the
U.S. to seek the hacker's extradition. This can be punishable by up to five years in
prison. The extradition law allows for subsequent court proceedings only on the
basis of the charges listed in the extradition request.