Friday, December 10, 2010

PayPal Capitulates After Anonymous DDOS Attacks, Releases Money to Wikileaks.

vanonymousAnonymous has been discovering it's strengths the past 2 years. Their first action involved a DDoS attack which brought Scientology.org offline then organizing global protests every month for 2 years. They now targeted PayPal over Wikileaks controversy.

After a relatively short series of DDoS attacks by the lulz/activist group known as "Anonymous". The multi-billion dollar company, PayPal, relented and is releasing all the funds
that were meant for Wikileaks.

PayPal claimed that their service was not significantly affected by the distributed denial of service attacks. Yet the timing of their announcement would suggest otherwise. Read More

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