A coordinated assault has taken the MasterCard website down. This attack was carried out by the “Anonymous” group of 4Chan. This denial-of-service assault has been dubbed "Operation Payback”. The Anonymous assault on MasterCard was in response to the card business taking straight down WikiLeaks donations. People may need to resort to paydayloans in order to pay their bills if Mastercard does’t get power over their website soon. Post resource – Anonymous takes MasterCard down – Visa next in Operation Payback by Money Blog Newz.
Remaining anonymous with MasterCard attack
MasterCard had a rough morning as the site was unavailable or really slow. This is because of a denial of service attack on the MasterCard website. The 4Chan message board was responsible for the attack. There were also hundreds of "hacktivsits" involved as well. External communication requests were sent by the hackers to the MasterCard site. They protect themselves during the takedown, the name "Anonymous" was used by hackers.
Anonymous states it is Operation Payback
The takedown of MasterCard was the first volley in what Anonymous calls “Operation Payback.”. This coordinated hack assault on the MasterCard website was intended to “punish” MasterCard. MasterCard stopped all funding services associated using the group WikiLeaks. Both Visa and PayPal withdrew too. The Anonymous group is calling this a “hacktivist” move – activism through hacking.
MasterCard punished by WikiLeaks followers
The reason the Anonymous hacktivist takedown of the MasterCard site was even arranged was because MasterCard admit the State Department asked them to stop WikiLeaks payment services, and they did stop. You will find many 4Chan supporters upset about this. They say that censorship of the WikiLeaks site is what is happening. It is possible that MasterCard and Visa could be used to donate to the KKK purchase not to WikiLeaks which is pointed out. Is makes sense that Visa and PayPal ought to be watching out for Operation Payback to hit their websites. Denial of services to WikiLeaks is causing many problems to the services. MasterCard and Visa may be concerned about the "irreversible harm" that the IT firm servicing WikiLeaks plans to bring. This would come within the form of a lawsuit.
Details from
Forbes
blogs.forbes.com/parmyolson/2010/12/08/google-chrome-netbook-mastercard-hack-site-ie9/?boxes=Homepagechannels
BBC News
bbc.co.uk/news/business-11945875
Washington Post
voices.washingtonpost.com/fasterforward/2010/12/4chan_knocks_mastercard_offlin.html
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