referred to as Anonymous, have retaliated against several sites which
have denied service to WikiLeaks shortly after the site started
leaking secret embassy cables.
The site of Swiss bank PostFinance, which has closed the account of
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, has been taken down and is still
unavailable at the time of this writing. Hackers have also attacked
PayPal but have only managed to take down the site's blog, while the
service remained operational.
A spokesman for the group behind the attacks on PayPal and PostFinance
said they will target any website that's "bowing down to government
pressure." The same group is allegedly behind the series of attacks
collectively called "Operation: Payback," which targeted anti-piracy
organizations such as RIAA and MPAA.
Among other companies that have denied service to WikiLeaks are DNS
service provider EveryDNS.net and Amazon. Most of these sites claim
they haven't shut down WikiLeaks' account due to political pressure,
instead naming technical or procedural reasons for denying the service
to the WikiLeaks.
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