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Bernd Fix

German hacker and computer security expert

Bernd Fix (born 19 March 1962 in Wittingen, Lower Saxony) is a German hacker and computer security expert.²

From Wikipedia’s article on Bernd Fix (this version), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Born Mar 19, 1962.¹

Companies

Wau Holland FoundationBoard member 2003 to now⁹

Early life and education

Date not recordedGymnasium Hankensbüttel³

Career

Occupation: computer scientist, hacker.⁵

Since 2003Board member, Wau Holland Foundation⁴

Personal life

BornMar 19, 1962, Wittingen⁶
CitizenshipGermany⁷

Philanthropy

Wau Holland Foundation and WikiLeaks

After the death of his friend Wau Holland (co-founder of the Chaos Computer Club) in 2001 Fix helped to establish the Wau Holland Foundation and serves as a founding member of the Board of Directors ever since.

According to Fix, when the Wau Holland Foundation started official operations in 2003, he and other founding members were in contact with Julian Assange and in 2009 they decided to support WikiLeaks. According to an interview from 2011, he got fired from his job at SIX Financial Information because of the foundation's support for WikiLeaks.

In July 2016, on the same day "Guccifer 2.0" sent Assange an encrypted 1 GB file containing stolen DNC emails, German hackers Andrew Müller-Maguhn and Bernd Fix met with Assange for at least four hours. Müller-Maguhn, the Wau Holland Foundation Vice President, is named in the Mueller report as a possible conduit for delivering hacked emails to Assange. According to The Washington Post, a former WikiLeaks associate said that year Müller-Maguhn and a colleague oversaw submissions to WikiLeaks server that year, which Müller-Maguhn denied. According to court documents, Müller-Maguhn and Bernd Fix were identified as priority targets of UC Global's spying.