WikiLeaks on Thursday blamed a journalist from the British newspaper The Guardian for the release of hundreds of thousands of unredacted U.S. State Department documents.

WikiLeaks has been redacting portions of the diplomatic cables to protect human rights activists and others, and releasing the documents in assorted batches since November 2010.

But a 1.73-GB password-protected file named "cables.csv," which contains all cables in their unredacted forms, has been circulating on the Internet.