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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. Re:Stupid action by HungryHobo · · Score: 1, Troll

    It doesn't discredit wikileaks though fox news types will probably claim wikileaks are the ones doing it.

    It is damned retarded though.
    a good ad campaign (mastercard doesn't care about freedom of speech etc) and taking your buisness elsewhere would do much more.