Mastercard.com could not stand the DDoS attack of Wikileaks readers

The 4Chan community and Anonymous have reported a successful DDoS attack on Mastercard.com , which is currently down. The attack was carried out as part of the large-scale operation "Payback" ( Operation: Payback ). A few days ago, Mastercard refused to transfer donations to the non-profit site Wikileaks. Prior to this, a successful attack was made on the website of a Swiss bank , which froze Julian Assange's account. The site was offline for about 16 hours. The PayPal blog site also suffered a DDoS attack for the same reason as Mastercard. Wikileaks is now forced to raise funds through startup accounts Flattr









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