Came across this when digging into something else. Old, but interesting (May 30 2012):

arstechnica.com

New book: WikiLeaks wanted LulzSec’s help to hack Iceland

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In the book, Olson recounts a moment when an alleged WikiLeaks representative named “q” approached the LulzSec crew online. Suspicious at first, both Sabu and then Topiary apparently accepted that Julian Assange himself was present during these chats. So what does the world’s most famous leak publisher need with the world’s most famous hacking crew? Here’s how the book describes the encounter (Gawker is running a short excerpt for those who want more detail):

“A young WikiLeaks member had recently gone to Iceland and been arrested. WikiLeaks had also been bidding for access to a data center in an underground bunker but had lost out to another corporate bidder after the government denied them the space. Another journalist who supported WikiLeaks was being held by authorities. Assange and q appeared to want LulzSec to try and grab the e-mail service of government sites, then look for evidence of corruption or at least evidence that the government was unfairly targeting WikiLeaks. The picture they were trying to paint was of the Icelandic government trying to suppress WikiLeaks’s freedom to spread information. If they could leak such evidence, they explained, it could help instigate an uprising of sorts in Iceland and beyond…”