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MasterCard.com website down in apparent Wikileaks-motivated internet attack

posted onJune 28, 2011
by l33tdawg

MasterCard's website is currently inaccessible following what appears to be a WikiLeaks-inspired internet attack against it.

In what appears to be the latest salvo by hactivists, the mastercard.com website is thought to be suffering 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.

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