WikiLeaks Revenge: Mastercard.com taken down by hackerz

[RobinX]

Twitter / Operation Payback: WE ARE GLAD TO TELL YOU TH ...

Source: MasterCard site partially frozen by hackers in WikiLeaks 'revenge' | Media | guardian.co.uk

Source: http://www.businessinsider.com/cybe...ite-have-now-taken-down-mastercardcom-2010-12

Discuss.

 

[Magic Hat]

Who the fuck goes to Mastercard.com anyway? Unless this is prohibiting MasterCard transactions from being made, big fucking deal.

 

[nomak]

Holy shit, this is huge

 

[Rexibit]

Unless this is prohibiting MasterCard transactions from being made, big fucking deal.

I'd assume that they'd have DDOS'd the portal which stops a lot of their major merchants from resolving disputes, or the IPs that allow their API to tie into Paypal and other Merchant Services.

Still, a single day of attacks could cost the company tens of millions in potential revenue as well as frustrated customers who lost money as well, which makes them want to think twice about just cutting someone lose under pressure without researching who might not be happy with it.

 

[Magic Hat]

I'd assume that they'd have DDOS'd the portal which stops a lot of their major merchants from resolving disputes, or the IPs that allow their API to tie into Paypal and other Merchant Services.

Still, a single day of attacks could cost the company tens of millions in potential revenue as well as frustrated customers who lost money as well, which makes them want to think twice about just cutting someone lose under pressure without researching who might not be happy with it.

True, I guess I should probably read the source articles before commenting next time.

 

[Bofu2U]

pwnd.

 

[shopdeal]

Fucking awesome,...mastercard can support kkk ...but can't support an org which tries to educate the public of the truth....

 

[.Hack]

YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS. GO HACKERSSSSSS

 

[l3msip]

shit well i hope none of my CPS traffic wanted to pay via mastercard today.

 

[turbolapp]

It's really stupid that the US fears nations like North Korea and China, when clearly they should only worry about pissing off teh hackers.

 

[benq99]

Hackers Defend WikiLeaks by Attacking PayPal and PostFinance [UPDATE: Mastercard, Too]

 

[onlinemoniez]

" . . . and the group has vowed to target Paypal, which has also ceased processing payments to the site."

Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

 

[andrewHB]

I just got this email from my Merchant Account:

"MasterCard is experiencing heavy traffic on its external corporate website – MasterCard.com. We are working to restore normal speed of service.

There is no impact whatsoever on our cardholders ability to use their cards for secure transactions."

HA> +REP for Operation Payback!

 

[adammcd]

they also took down the swiss bank that froze his accounts. id say that'd be a huge loss if the bank had online banking, etc.

 

[igl00]

now lets all go to mastercard.com to verify if its down [aka ddos it natural way!]

 

[toppymoney]

I cant get mastercard.com to load in any browser.

Damn thats impressive.

 

[turbolapp]

....

 

[Gooddeal]

Consequences will never be the same

 

[xmcp123]

Who the fuck goes to Mastercard.com anyway? Unless this is prohibiting MasterCard transactions from being made, big fucking deal.

There is. They have an merchant optional secure-id validation that requires a redirect onto MasterCard's site.

 

[gdubs12345]

are you guys are retards or what