Much to the annoyance of government departments and big business everywhere, whistleblower website Wikileaks has been saved.

The site behind the publication of the British National Party's membership list last year was facing shutdown - needing around £130,000 to survive.

In December it cease publishing leaked documents, concentrating on raising donations, this week they succeeded yet staff have still not been paid. That target of around £400,000 has not been reached.

Big revelations promised

The pledge drive promised potentially explosive information on corrupt banks, the US detainee system, the Iraq war, China and the UN.

Their main site is still dedicated to raising money and there is no indication when normal operations will resume.

In an update via Twitter late on Wednesday night, Wikileaks announced that it had reached its minimum target.

“Achieved min. fundraising goal. ($200k/600k); we're back fighting for another year, even if we have to eat rice to do it.”

It promises to protect the anonymity of its contributors. Wikileaks runs a worldwide network of servers in order to frustrate take-down efforts, which are frequent.

Other embarrassing documents released include Guantánamo Bay procedures, Australian web censorship lists and the controversial 9/11 pager messages.

Emails from Sarah Palin's hacked Yahoo account were also published by the site back when she was running for Vice President in 2008.

There were fears the site would go under when PayPal froze its account in late January, but service was restored days later.