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MasterCard Hit By WikiLeaks Payback Attacks

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the this-is-getting-messy dept.

An anonymous reader writes "MasterCard's website has been hit by a distributed denial of service attack. Netcraft describes how the attack uses a voluntary botnet of LOIC (low orbit ion cannon) users to swamp sites with traffic. PostFinance, the PayPal blog and Swedish prosecutors have been targeted previously."

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  1. Forgive me if I'm off topic here... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    I keep trying to read the story at http://www.mastercard.com/ but nothings happening.