14 DAY TRIAL // The Anonymous group of hacktivists is making good on its promise to attack those helping to censor WikiLeaks, the latest victim being PostFinance, who’s website has become the target of distributed denial of service (DDoS) after the Swiss bank closed the account of Julian Assange.
In the latest move of what already starts to look as a harassment campaign against WikiLeaks orchestrated by various businesses and governments around the world, PostFinance decided to suspend the personal bank account of WikiLeaks Editor-in-Chief Julian Assange.
The bank alleged that Assange, who doesn’t have a stable residence and moves around the world a lot, used his lawyers’ Geneva address to set up the account, which is against the terms of the contract.
The bank said Assange's account came under scrutiny because he became a high profile individual and that it plans to transfer the funds (31,000 euros according to WikiLeaks), to another account of his choosing.
The news comes after Monday, PayPal suspended the account used by WikiLeaks to recieve donations. The account had 60,000 euros in it, which the organization is now trying to recover.
The whistleblower site also has assets in bank accounts in Iceland and Germany, which might also be targeted in the near future.
Anonymous officially pledged support to WikiLeaks yesterday stressing that “We will find and will attack those who stand against Wikileaks and we will support WikiLeaks in everything they need.”
The group’s preferred weapon is DDoS and it did not hesitate to use it against PayPal and now PostFinance, most likely costing both companies money.
The postfinance.ch website has been offline for much of the past twelve hours and remains down at the time of writing this article.
MasterCard also announced suspending WikiLeaks’ ability to receive donations from MasterCard credit cards. Anonymous is currently assessing this new development.