After Post Finance and Master Card, Visa is now also being targeted in "Operation Payback". The Wikileaks supporters laid the website of the credit card company on Wednesday evening with distributed denial-of-service attacks (DDoS) lame. This mass-data packets are sent to the server until they buckle under the load.

Visa, like Mastercard had previously blocked the opportunity to donate to Wikileaks. The website of Master Card was also on Wednesday of a DDoS attack the victim fell . Mitter while a site the master card available again. The website of the Swiss financial institution PostFinance, an account had been blocked by Wikileaks, was even turned off for two days.

After " Operation Payback "put the well-known Internet platform 4chan apparently. The Twitter account @ Anon-operation as well as the Facebook page of the group, the attacks were coordinated, have now been removed and Facebook from Twitter. Among other things, is currently still a German Twitter account under AnonGermany active.

Wikileaks-founder Julian Assange, who on Tuesday was arrested and now awaits an extradition process is, claims to not behind the attacks on the websites of financial institutions. His client had been no instructions to attack, said the lawyer for the Australian to the news agency Reuters. In addition to the attacks on the websites diplomat end Peschen were also other U.S. public.

A document stating that representatives from Visa and Mastercard last year turned to the U.S. Embassy in Moscow when the U.S. companies threatened by a new law in Russia economic disadvantages. According to the document called for the two credit card companies, the U.S. government to bring Russia to amend the law so that U.S. financial service providers do not suffer. The boycott by WikiLeaks by the two companies appears in the face of the telegram in a new light.