ZURICH - AN ANONYMOUS group of hackers said on Wednesday they had launched online attacks to shut down the websites of credit card Mastercard and a Swiss bank that cut off business ties with WikiLeaks.
The self styled 'hacktivist' group dubbed Anon-Operation said in one tweet that 'www.mastercard.com/ is down' and the site of the credit card giant could not be accessed from Geneva.
The Swiss post office banking service, PostFinance, confirmed on Wednesday that its website was suffering denial of service attacks since it closed the bank account of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange on Monday.
'Since the closure of the account, groups have launched 'Operation Payback' with the aim of blocking PostFinance by simulating hundreds of thousands of connections with the aim of overloading it,' said PostFinance.
Attempts to connect to the Postfinance.ch website on Wednesday produced error messages.
'Target: postfinance.ch :: Grab your weapon and its settings: FIRE NOW!' said one tweet on Anon-Operation. -- AFP
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