Twitter and Facebook have deleted user accounts operated by hackers who have sworn reprisal assaults in opposition to services seen as deserting WikiLeaks recently.
The online fight known as Operation Payback has been operated by means of social networking websites, plus additional chat rooms, to organize its computer attacks. Both Twitter and Facebook have deactivated accounts that came out as the campaign’s name, apparently for relating to hacking codes and other progress that violate their terms of agreement.
But these actions were not able to stop the Anonymous collective of “hacktivists” from attacking the websites of Visa and the Swedish Govt.
WikiLeaks itself was using Facebook and Twitter as the main message channels, despite excessive pressurized demands from US to pull off support for WikiLeaks.
PayPal, Amazon, MasterCard and Visa have all stopped operating with WikiLeaks since last week, each asserting that the website infringed their terms of agreement.
Anonymous, working separately from WikiLeaks, has besieged some of these websites, claiming it objects to everything like internet censorship. On MasterCard’s online payment processing service was compromised.
Wesites of J. Lieberman (criticizer of WikiLeaks), S. Palin (former US VP candidate), and the Swedish prosecutor scrutinizing on incriminations against Julian Assange of sexual offences have all been compromised.
The action of Twitter and Facebook, two foremost social networks, in opposition to Anonymous could menace acts of vengeance by the hacktivists.
Operation Payback referred to Twitter as a probable target, arguing that it was blocking WikiLeaks from appearing on its “trending topics”, the main themes for chat on the website.
Visa’s website was unreachable from London and extra services were also disturbed.
Anonymous claiming the attacks asserted it is not a group of hackers. It portrayed itself as “decentralized” and “river like”, and is a continuing movement “in opposition to those who misuse the internet”. Currently, the position of Anonymous is aimed towards those employing unfair means to brawl WikiLeaks”.
Anonymous in no way is launching attacks against critical infrastructures, rather it is only causing disruptions in websites.
Let’s join Operation Payback.
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