A hacker or hackers who allegedly involved in the attack to the site Mastercard and Paypal arrested in the Netherlands authorities. He was accused of being part of an underground group of supporters who carried out operations WikiLeaks revenge against WikiLeaks site that is considered blocking.
Dutch authorities on Thursday (12/09/2010), said the perpetrator was a man aged 16 years, but they did not mention his identity. He was arrested at the Hague, on Wednesday night, and will be immediately brought to court on Friday today. They arrested the young man from the investigation after receiving reports that one source of an attack originating from the Netherlands.
Dutch authorities on Thursday (12/09/2010), said the perpetrator was a man aged 16 years, but they did not mention his identity. He was arrested at the Hague, on Wednesday night, and will be immediately brought to court on Friday today. They arrested the young man from the investigation after receiving reports that one source of an attack originating from the Netherlands.
Previously, the site Paypal and Mastercard are part of the target of DDoS attacks (distributed denial of service), which waged a group of hackers named themselves as Anonymous and 4Chan. Both the financial transaction service provider shut down access to accounts established WikiLeaks donations for Julian Assange for violating the rules of their use. The action was sparked sympathy group of hackers who then launched an act of revenge by Operation code Operation Payback or Avenge Assange.
As rumored, WikiLeaks in the spotlight since they announced it will reveal more than 250,000 U.S. diplomatic secret documents. This angered the U.S. government and a number of countries. In fact, the pressure makes the Amazon refused to be hosting for the site WikiLeaks. EveryDNS previously provided domain address to WikiLeaks also cut off access to sites such disgrace whistleblower forced to change the address and put the content into a number of servers in various countries. WikiLeaks also some times become the target of DDoS attacks. by: kompas.com
