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Julian Assange was born on July 3, 1971, in Townsville, Queensland, Australia.
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Assange was raided by the police with the tools of his burgeoning hacker's trade a £350 Amiga 500 computer and more than a dozen discs filled with the access codes of websites.
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Julian Assange founds Wikileaks.org, a Web site intended to collect and share confidential information on an international scale.
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The site was officially launched in 2007 and it was run out of Sweden
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Wikileaks releases that the US decided to ignore cases of torture by Iraqi authorities on civilians.
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Assange announces Wikileaks will temporarily stop publishing classified US diplomatic files to concentrate on fundraising for the website
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Julian Assange is 43 years old