In the assault coordinated on the 4Chan forum, Anonymous has taken the MasterCard site straight down. This assault, a denial of service set of demands, is being called “Operation Payback”. The Anonymous attack on MasterCard was in response to the card company taking down WikiLeaks donations. People may have to make use of payday loan in order to pay their bills if Mastercard does’t get control of their site soon. Source of article – Anonymous takes MasterCard down – Visa next in Operation Payback by Money Blog Newz.
Nevertheless only the anonymous involved in MasterCard assault
MasterCard had a rough morning as the site was unavailable or really slow. This is due to a denial of service attack on the MasterCard website. The 4Chan message board was responsible for the assault. There were also hundreds of "hacktivsits" involved as well. The MasterCard site was taken down by the hackers that had the title "Anonymous" to protect themselves, and saturated the MasterCard site with external communication requests.
Anonymous states it is Operation Payback
The assault on MasterCard was given a title by Anonymous. "Operation Payback" is this name. MasterCard was being "punished" with the coordinated assault. MasterCard stopped all funding services associated using the group WikiLeaks. Both Visa and PayPal withdrew too. The hacking activism is what is going on using the Anonymous group which states it’s a "hacktivist" move.
Punishment for MasterCard's actions on WikiLeaks
The Anonymous hacktivist takedown of the MasterCard site was organized after MasterCard admitted that they took straight down their payment service for WikiLeaks at the request of the State Department. Users of 4Chan, also as many others, are naming this tantamount to censorship of the WikiLeaks site. One often-repeated tweet pointed out that individuals could nevertheless use MasterCard and Visa to donate to the KKK, but not to WikiLeaks. The Visa and PayPal websites ought to be prepared for an assault within the near future. Operation Payback will likely consist of them too. Denial of services to WikiLeaks is causing many problems to the services. MasterCard and Visa might be concerned about the "irreversible harm" the IT firm servicing WikiLeaks plans to bring. This would come within the form of a lawsuit.
Articles cited
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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