Posts Tagged: WikiLeaks

MasterCard website hacked in support of Wikileaks


Boy has Wikileaks been in the news lately. Not only have they leaked a ton of secret documents, they’re now hunted across the world, and several businesses have stopped serving them, like Amazon, PayPal, and now MasterCard, which blocked funding to Wikileaks with its cards.

WikiLeaks Now Comes Under Financial Attack

300px Julian Assange 26C3 150x150 WikiLeaks Now Comes Under Financial AttackFollowing the release of 250,000 diplomatic cables by website WikiLeaks last week the site has come under attack, first from a massive Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) attack, then from Amazon who pulled it’s hosting from their servers and finally from EveryDNS who then pulled the plug on the website’s domain name.