WikiLeaks supporters attack MasterCard site

From CNET News.com: Activists fighting on behalf of WikiLeaks brought down MasterCard's Web site today, according to the BBC and other sources.
The hacking group Anonymous is taking responsibility for a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack on the credit company's site in retaliation for MasterCard's decision on Monday to block donations and payments to WikiLeaks, which was first reported by CNET.

MasterCard's main site was at times either offline or extremely slow to load this morning. Ping requests to the site also timed out, an indication that the site was unreachable.

Early this morning, the Anonymous group, which uses the Twitter account Anon_Operation, tweeted the following statement:

"WE ARE GLAD TO TELL YOU THAT mastercard.com is DOWN AND IT'S CONFIRMED"

MasterCard claimed its site was still functioning but just experiencing heavy traffic on its external corporate site, according to the BBC. The company added that there was "no impact" on the ability of customers to use their credit cards for transactions, the BBC further reported.

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