A hacker group connected to the 4chan imageboard online, often called Anonymous, retaliated against several sites that refuse service to Wikileaks shortly after the site began releasing cables secret embassy.
The site of the Swiss bank PostFinance, who closed the account Wikileaks (Wikileaks) founder Julian Assange, was taken down and is still not available at the time of writing. Pirates also attacked PayPal but have only managed to shoot down the blog site (blog), while the service remained operational.
A spokesman for the group behind the attacks on PayPal and PostFinance said they will target any website that is the same group is believed to be behind the series of attacks collectively known as "bowing to pressure the government. "" Operation: Payback ", which was anti-piracy organizations like the RIAA and MPAA.
Other companies have refused service are Wikileaks DNS service EveryDNS.net and Amazon (Amazon.com). Most of these sites claim they did not stop account because of political pressure Wikileaks, instead of naming a technical or procedural reasons to deny service to Wikileaks.
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