MasterCard Taken Down by Hackers Yet again in Assist of WikiLeaks
Selasa, 28 Juni 2011 by Android Blackberry
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Hackers have attacked MasterCard’s web page in protest of your company’s blockade of WikiLeaks.
“MasterCard.com DOWN!!!, thats that which you get if you mess with @wikileaks @Anon_Central plus the enter local community of lulz loving men and women :D,” tweeted @ibomhacktivist, who appears to be connected with the hacker collective Anonymous.
Though MasterCard‘s web-site is at this time on the internet, there are reports that it had been fully offline at an individual position on account of the DDoS (distributed denial of support) attack.
In December 2010, hackers took down Mastercard’s web page, as well as Postfinance and PayPal, to the actual same exact explanation: a WikiLeaks blockade.
Shortly just after the assault on MasterCard, WikiLeaks acknowledged on its official Twitter account that quite a few banking institutions however won’t do enterprise while using the business. “The unlawful banking blockade towards WikiLeaks in 6th month: The culprits: VISA, MasterCard, PayPal, Bank of America, Western Union,” claimed the tweet.
LulzSec, the hacker group that wreaked havoc on corporate and government internet sites inside the past two months, just lately disbanded. Having said that, the Anonymous hacktivist collective vowed to proceed their hacking pursuits, and we can easily previously see proof they weren’t kidding