A group of hackers often referred to as Anonymous have set their sights on Visa.com in a recent war against those sites that have denied service to WikiLeaks.
Previous WikiLeaks-related targets of what has been dubbed
“Operation Payback” (here’s a
video that breaks it down) include Swiss bank PostFinance (still down for the count), which has closed the account of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, PayPal (Anon took down the blog, but it’s now operational) and Mastercard (now up and running — at least in some browsers).
Visa.com is now down for the count as well.