Mastercard website attacked and down

[Crashoran]

In retaliation for their part in the wikileaks ordeal..

It now appears they are targeting Visa next

Operation Payback (Anon_Operation) on Twitter

Kinda crazy..

[Sonny]

Whoa! Who is this group?

[Kalrog]

Originally Posted by Sonny

Whoa! Who is this group?

Pissed off geeks...

[Crashoran]

Originally Posted by Sonny

Whoa! Who is this group?

About 1000 or so anonymous hackers. Mostly teenagers

[Sonny]

Originally Posted by Kalrog

Pissed off geeks...

Originally Posted by Crashoran

About 1000 or so anonymous hackers. Mostly teenagers

This is why it's not good to be an on-line a$$hole.

[Tom]

The people doing this are obviously as intelligent as they are attractive.

[Sonny]

Originally Posted by Thomas Campbell

The people doing this are obviously as intelligent as they are attractive.

Easy now or you will be next.

[Crashoran]

...aaaaand Visa.com is down.

[S-Man]

Did visa cut their connection because they were being attacked, or did the actual attack cause the outage? I think it's the former. Haha these geeks are hilarious.

edit: What is their goal? Is this like a "Fight Club" type scenario?

[Crashoran]

Originally Posted by S-Man

Did visa cut their connection because they were being attacked, or did the actual attack cause the outage? I think it's the former. Haha these geeks are hilarious.

edit: What is their goal? Is this like a "Fight Club" type scenario?

One thing is that I certainly don't agree with any type of censorship on the web.

[S-Man]

Wow Facebook just shut down their page. I can't blame facebook, since it clearly violates their terms of use. It's just weird how all this is happening so fast.

[Crashoran]

Originally Posted by S-Man

Wow Facebook just shut down their page. I can't blame facebook, since it clearly violates their terms of use. It's just weird how all this is happening so fast.

I don't blame facebook. They have a history of attacking FB groups and individuals

[LanceHaynie]

Originally Posted by S-Man

It's just weird how all this is happening so fast.

Welcome to the age of the internet.

[janikphoto]

These people don't really care about the work wikileaks was doing. They just want to be pirates, regardless of the reason. With that said, I'm glad someone is coming to the defense of wikileaks... I hate that the government is trying to make the wikileaks people out to be "terrorists", because they have made some terrible government actions known to the public.

[dryicerx]

Mastercard and Visa... accept money for KKK, but not wikileaks, because you know, their terrists [sic], lol..

Originally Posted by Crashoran

About 1000 or so anonymous hackers. Mostly teenagers

Unfortunately not really... Significant portion of the attack is done by only a very few number in the order of tens (botmasters with enough to spare), and the the of the rest of the people involved actually don't make any difference in the technical attack sense, but rather the spreading the news about it.