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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/hackers-claim-mastercard-site-crash.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="Hackers claim to have crashed the MasterCard website in a WikiLeaks protest" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/min-hackers-claim-mastercard-site-crash.jpg" alt="Hackers claim to have crashed the MasterCard website in a WikiLeaks protest"/></a></p>
<p>Hackers have claimed to have crashed the MasterCard website in revenge for the firm suspending services to whistle-blowing website WikiLeaks.</p>
<p>Anonymous, understood to be a loose-knit group of internet activists, tweeted: &#8220;We are glad to tell you that www.mastercard.com is down and it&#8217;s confirmed.&#8221;</p>
<p>Another message read: &#8220;There are some things WikiLeaks can&#8217;t do. For everything else, there&#8217;s Operation Payback.&#8221;</p>
<p>Mastercard was not immediately available to comment but repeated attempts to load the site met without success.</p>
<p>So-called distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks also appeared to have been launched against PayPal, PostFinance, and the Swedish prosecutors office.</p>
<p>&#8220;We can confirm that there was an attempted DDoS attack on paypal.com,&#8221; a spokeswoman said.</p>
<p>&#8220;The attack slowed some payments down for a short while but we remained fully operational throughout.&#8221;</p>
<p>DDoS attacks, which are illegal in the UK, involve overloading a website with requests so it stops working.</p>
<p>&#8220;While we don&#8217;t have much of an affiliation with WikiLeaks, we fight for the same reasons,&#8221; the Anonymous group said in a statement on its website.</p>
<p>&#8220;We want transparency and we counter censorship&#8230; This is why we intend to utilise our resources to raise awareness, attack those against and support those who are helping lead our world to freedom and democracy.&#8221;</p>
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