Paypal Payments Disrupted by WikiLeaks Attacks, Visa and Mastercard Also Attacked
Online payments giant PayPal recently froze the WikiLeaks account citing a breach of service by the whistleblower organization. Paypal was then the subject of many denial of service attacks by supporters of WikiLeaks.
Since then PayPal has relented and said that funds previously owed WikiLeaks can go through, but no more donations can be made to the organization as it is still banned from using PayPal.
Mastercard and Visa have also been attacked after shutting down WikiLeaks accounts and consumers have reported problems while attempting to shop with the credit cards.
Facebook and Twitter have recently closed WikiLeaks related accounts.
Meanwhile, the US State Department denied a report that it contacted the online money transfer service PayPal and asked them to cut ties with WikiLeaks.
"It is not true," State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley told The Cable. "We have not been in touch with PayPal."
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Meanwhile, PayPal users are swamping message boards and chat rooms complaining about the lack of movement of PayPal funds. Many of them are blaming the WikiLeaks attacks, though that has not been confirmed by PayPal.
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12 Comments
Post a CommentHow are we letting a bunch of teenage hippies screw with the entire world. and its all fun and games till soldiers start getting killed due to information leaks. Not so great then, not so great at all.
OMG! .. great reporting!!
oh no
Always one thing or another
What a mess this is!
This is one form of terrorism that I never expected.
Eek, guess WikiLeaks is impacting a lot of people now,... and might make holiday shopping a mess. And for those of us here, praying for speedy pymt.
I am beyond pissed about this whole situation. I would shake it off if it weren't much, but I'm waiting for almost $700. These little dumb asses that are supporting someone that broke the law are complete morons. He BROKE the LAW. Get the _______ over it and stop trying to ruin everyone's Christmas!
Sounds like an episode of Who's the Boss. Can't understand why we let it get this far. Talk about holding hostages, lol!
I agree, I wish it didn't need to be written. Do these people think that leaking top secret documents is a fun game or something? Maybe they would change their tune if terrorists attacked an important facility as a result of a leak. Sure we all want to know what our governments are doing, or do we?