BofA shares drop 3% on speculation it is next WikiLeaks target

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Traders' fears that Bank of America will be the next target of WikiLeaks drove the company's stock price down 3% on Tuesday. Julian Assange, WikiLeaks' founder, told Computerworld last year that he had obtained a vast amount of data from a BofA executive's computer. In an interview with Forbes magazine, Assange said WikiLeaks plans to publish data from a major U.S. bank that might lead to an investigation, but he didn't name the bank.
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