In the assault coordinated on the 4Chan message board, Anonymous has taken the MasterCard website down. This denial-of-service assault has been dubbed "Operation Payback”. Taking down payment services for WikiLeaks is what began this. Operation Payback action. People might have to take out a payday loan to stay on top of bills if MasterCard's site doesn't get under control soon .
Anonymous attack on MasterCard
This morning, the MasterCard site was running slow and, at times, not available at all. This is due to a denial of service assault on the MasterCard website. There were hundreds, possibly thousands, of "hacktivsits" involved in the attack that was organized by the 4Chan message board. The MasterCard website was taken straight down by the hackers that had the name "Anonymous" to protect themselves, and saturated the MasterCard website with external communication requests.
Anonymous doing Operation Payback
The assault on MasterCard was given a name by Anonymous. "Operation Payback" is this name. This coordinated hack attack on the MasterCard site was intended to “punish” MasterCard. Last week, MasterCard (along with Visa and PayPal) withdrew funding services for the group . It is called a "hacktivist" move by the Anonymous group. It is hacking in order to do activism.
Hurting MasterCard because of WikiLeaks choice
The Anonymous hacktivist takedown of the MasterCard website was organized after MasterCard admitted that they took down their payment service for WikiLeaks at the request of the State Department. This is considered censorship of the WikiLeaks website based on supporters of 4Chan. Many point out the KKK could nevertheless be donated to by MasterCard and Visa although WikiLeaks cannot. This has been tweeted. The Visa and PayPal websites should be prepared for an attack within the near future. Operation Payback will likely consist of them too. Denial of services to WikiLeaks is causing many problems to the services. The IT firm that services WikiLeaks plans to sue both MasterCard and Visa for carrying out “irreversible harm” to their business.
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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