MasterCard.com brought down in apparent Wikileaks-motivated internet attack !!!!

[INDRANIL]

MasterCard's website was knocked offline earlier today following a WikiLeaks-inspired internet attack against it.

In what appears to be the latest salvo by hactivists, the mastercard.com website is thought to have suffered from a denial-of-service attack - where an internet site is bombarded with a large amount of traffic making it impossible for genuine visitors to access it.

A Twitter user called ibomhacktivist seems to be taking responsibility for the attack, and links the action to the WikiLeaks-inspired attack on MasterCard by the Anonymous group last year.



MasterCard.com DOWN!!!, thats what you get when you mess with @wikileaks @Anon_Central and the enter community of lulz loving individuals

MasterCard angered the hacktivist community after it suspended the ability for WikiLeaks to accept payments via the firm. Police in the Netherlands arrested two teenagers for allegedly playing their part in the attacks last year.

So after CityBank now Mastercard. Be safe have fun .

More & Source .

[Bearcat]

Thanks for the news Indra. I wonder who will be next on their list?

[INDRANIL]

Hmm same here .

[JayCub]

They do this for the laugh but how is this funny

[Ceyfer √]

So the trending topics here are Blackhat SEO, Malvertising and DDOS. Sounds like there's a temporary atmospheric disturbances, don't forget to carry your own umbrella, just in case rains made of ones and zeroes pours heavily outside.