Ecuadorian Embassy security guard broke protocol to receive package from masked man before major WikiLeaks dump

A security guard at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London broke protocol when he left his post to receive a mysterious package from a disguised man in the summer of 2016.

That very same day, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who was living there in political asylum, informed Russian hackers that he received a tranche of files after asking for material related to Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton and was preparing to release them, according to special counsel Robert Mueller’s report on Russian meddling in the U.S. election.