After a security breach at the document-leaking organization WikiLeaks, 2.5 million “unredacted” secret documents ^[1] are out on the Web. WikiLeaks places the blame squarely on the Guardian, one of several news organizations with which WikiLeaks has shared the top-secret information it’s obtained from leaks at various governments and corporations.

At issue is a book on WikiLeaks and its high-profile leader Julian Assange that was published by the Guardian and contains a password to some WikiLeaks files. WikiLeaks says it has commenced “pre-litigation action” against the Guardian.

The newspaper responds that the suggestion that its book in any way compromised WikiLeaks security is “nonsense.” The book did contain a password, but offered no information on where to find the files. In any case, it was told that the password was a temporary one, due to be deleted within a matter of hours.

Read more at CNET ^[1].