Pro-WikiLeaks Hackers' Latest Target: PayPal Goes Down
The pro-WikiLeaks hacker group Anonymous has launched a cyber-attack that successfully disabled PayPal's API, taking down the website api.paypal.com.
Anonymous launched a campaign, Operation Payback, targeting \"major anti-piracy & anti-freedom entities.\" MasterCard, Visa, Amazon, Joe Lieberman, and Sarah Palin are among those who have been victim to cyberattacks launched by the activist hacker group.
\"Target is: api.paypal.com _Status: seems to be down :) Instructions: http://pastehtml.com/view/1c8i33u.html #ddos #payback #wikileaks,\" Anonymous' Operation Payback Twitter account, @Op_Payback, tweeted at around 1PM ET.
Disabling PayPal's API can interfere with partner sites' ability to process PayPal transactions.
PayPal cut off WikiLeaks' money flow and blocked the account the organization had been using to collect donations, a move the company admitted was precipitated by action taken by the U.S. State Department.
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