Online supporters of whistleblowing website Wikileaks are fighting back after news of Julian Assange’s arrest hit the wires.Online activists known as “Anonymous” have initiated what they called Operation:Payback, a call to action to bring down the websites of companies that have publicly removed services once used by the Wikileaks website. Anoymous has already targeted the Swiss bank PostFinance, a bank that froze all payments to the controversial website, after it promised to take down PayPal, the online payment company that cancelled Wikileaks’ account that it used to solicit donations.
Its current target? Mastercard. The website is currently down for a large number of users after a DDOS attack.
For more: Anonymous’ Operation:Payback campaign defends Wikileaks, downs MasterCard website
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