Twitter Suspends Group Linked to WikiLeaks Visa, MasterCard Attacks

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Twitter early this week denied claims that it was censoring trending topics surrounding the embattled whistle blowing site WikiLeaks. The microblogging service does appear to have stepped into the fray, however, by suspending the account of Operation Payback, the group that helped rally hackers against MasterCard and Visa in the wake of the companies’ decision to freeze WikiLeaks fundraising accounts.

Twitter early this week denied claims that it was censoring tweets from the embattled whistle blowing site WikiLeaks. The microblogging service does appear to have stepped into the fray, however, by suspending the account of Operation Payback, the group that helped rally hackers against MasterCard and Visa in the wake of the company’s decision to freeze WikiLeaks fundraising accounts.

There’s not much in the way of info–just the standard Twitter error message with te words “Sorry, the profile you are trying to view has been suspended.”

Operation Payback took partial credit for the DDoS attacks that took down Visa and MasterCard yesterday–attacks that were also linked to infamous message board, 4Chan.

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