This is a confirmed target of "Operation Payback," a 4chan/Anonymous attack against those who have opposed Wikileaks. The primary targets include MasterCard (w

This is a confirmed target of "Operation Payback," a 4chan/Anonymous attack against those who have opposed Wikileaks. The primary targets include MasterCard (which was hit earlier today) and Visa, who refused to process donations to Wikileaks. The Swedish Prosecution authority is apparently also on the list. Although these types of DDoS attacks (they are using the Low Orbit Ion Cannon tool available at https://github.com/NewEraCracker/LOIC/ https://github.com/NewEraCracker/LOIC/ ) do not affect cardholder data, it will render legitimate users completely unable to login to their merchant accounts.