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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/amazon-site-goes-offline-in-europe.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="Shopping website Amazon went offline for a brief period with a group of 'hacktivists' suggesting they may be responsible" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/min-amazon-site-goes-offline-in-europe.jpg" alt="Shopping website Amazon went offline for a brief period with a group of 'hacktivists' suggesting they may be responsible"/></a></p>
<p>Shopping website Amazon went offline for a brief period with a group of &#8220;hacktivists&#8221; suggesting they may be responsible.</p>
<p>Amazon.co.uk was unreachable, while the company&#8217;s French, German and Italian domains were also experiencing problems.</p>
<p>However, after about half an hour on Sunday night the UK site was working again, a relief to thousands of Christmas shoppers.</p>
<p>Anonymous, a group of online hacktivists who support the whistle-blowing website WikiLeaks, has claimed responsibility for a series of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks in the past week.</p>
<p>The attacks have disrupted the websites of companies including Visa, Mastercard and PayPal by bombarding them with millions of visits in revenge for withdrawing WikiLeaks&#8217; services.</p>
<p>A message on a Twitter account used by the activists, Anonops, read: &#8220;We cant confirm anything because we&#8217;ll lose our accounts again. Be alert and you will realize.&#8221;</p>
<p>An earlier post which quoted Abraham Lincoln read: &#8220;Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.&#8221;</p>
<p>Several accounts attributed to Anonymous and its campaign, dubbed Operation Payback, have been suspended over the attacks.</p>
<p>Earlier in the week the group appeared to abort an attack against Amazon after it failed to make any impact on the site&#8217;s performance.</p>
<p>DDoS attacks, which are illegal in the UK, involve overloading a website with high numbers of requests so it stops working.</p>
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