Wednesday, April 7, 2010 as of 11:14 AM ET
Operation Payback is a coordinated, decentralized group of attacks on opponents of Internet piracy by Internet activists using the "Anonymous" moniker - a group sometimes affiliated with the website 4chan.
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In an unprecedented assault described variously as civil disobedience or criminal hacking, supporters of WikiLeaks struck out Wednesday at perceived enemies of the site and its jailed founder Julian Assange, launching hack attacks against MasterCard, Swedish prosecutors, and others -- and promising future attacks against Twitter, PayPal and even FoxNews.
com.The "hacktivists," operating under the label Operation: Payback , claimed responsibility in a Twitter message for causing the outages at MasterCard, which pulled the plug on its relationship with WikiLeaks on Tuesday. An online poster put out by the campaign makes its goals explicit ."We will fire at anyone or anything that tries to censor WikiLeaks, including multi-billion dollar companies such as PayPal. Twitter, you're next for censoring #wikileaks discussion." "The major shittstorm has begun," the poster reads. MasterCard was the first to experience issues. The site remains disabled following attacks, though the company would no...Julian Assange , the jailed founder of WikiLeaks , is distancing himself from the cyber-attacks on MasterCard, Visa, and other organizations deemed hostile to him an...
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LONDON -- Britain's national security adviser has warned that government websites are at risk of cyber attack from pro-WikiLeaks hackers, prime minister David Camero...
Online payment service provider PayPal says in a company blog it has cut off the account used by WikiLeaks to collect donations.The company said in a blog posting th...
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Bank of America Corp. has joined several other financial institutions in refusing to handle payments for WikiLeaks, the latest blow to the secret-releasing organizat...
Investigative documents in the WikiLeaks probe spilled out into the public domain Saturday for the first time, pointing to the Obama administration's determination t...
Investigative documents in the WikiLeaks probe spilled out into the public domain Saturday for the first time, pointing to the Obama administration's determination t...
WikiLeaks supporters launch cyber-attacks
Internet retailer Amazon is denying that pro-WikiLeaks hackers were responsible for the failure of its websites in several European countries.Amazon sites were offli...
Cyberactivism -- call it "hactivism" -- is sweeping the web. But legal experts put a starker label on it: criminal.To show support for WikiLeaks and its controversia...
LONDON -- WikiLeaks supporters struck back Wednesday at perceived enemies of the site and its jailed founder Julian Assange, launching hack attacks against MasterCar...
Portions of the diplomatic cables contained in WikiLeaks are available for sale on Amazon's U.K. website, an odd twist after the company ousted the organization from...
Arguments over stolen diplomatic cables posted online by WikiLeaks have spawned a multi-front battle that has spilled off the web and onto the streets, leading to ph...
The author of a WikiLeaks-related e-book has removed the publication from Amazon amidst a controversy surrounding its sale."We did not remove the title, and are veri...
WikiLeaks has again begun accepting credit card donations, a company affiliated with the secret-spilling site said Thursday.Andreas Fink, the chief executive of Icel...
Skirmishes raged across cyberspace between WikiLeaks supporters and the companies they accuse of trying to stifle the group, with websites on both sides of the battl...
Skirmishes raged across cyberspace between WikiLeaks supporters and the companies they accuse of trying to stifle the group, with websites on both sides of the battl...
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