Hackers Attack Companies That Hindered WikiLeaks

On Wednesday, a small group of hackers came up with a campaign to hack companies against WikiLeaks that had released classified American Documents. Mastercard, Amazon and PayPal were targets by these group of Hackers. For they had hindered WikiLeaks by cutting of donations, revoking server space and cutting off commercial cooperation. These companies websites are dealing with heavy traffic and slow access caused by the hackers.

Mr. Housh, who has worked on previous campaigns with Anonymous but disavows any illegal activity himself, said it was the first time the group had enough firepower to bring down well-secured blue chip companies like Mastercard. “No tactics have changed this time,” he said, “but there is so much support and there are so many people doing it that sites like that are going down.”

Its odd to see these big cooperations struggling with these anonymous hackers that are hindering their web sites to work. You would expect for these companies to have a strong security team of hackers that would have no problem protecting their web sites. This proves that our privacy such as credit card numbers and social security numbers may not be as well protected as we may think.