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Sky News - Breaking News
Web anarchists who attacked the PayPal and Mastercard websites say they have now taken down the Visa site.
Sky News Online was redirected to the search engine Bing when it tried to access Visa.
Anon_Operation had given an hour's notice that it would take down the Visa website as part of Operation Payback, a campaign against companies that have withdrawn services from the whistleblowing website WikiLeaks.
The movement urged supporters to "get your weapons ready" then "FIRE FIRE FIRE!!!".
Several minutes after hacktivists urged the attack, visa.com went down.
Earlier attacks on Mastercard and PayPal were partially successful, affecting Mastercard's European operations
Web anarchists who attacked the PayPal and Mastercard websites say they have now taken down the Visa site.
Sky News Online was redirected to the search engine Bing when it tried to access Visa.
Anon_Operation had given an hour's notice that it would take down the Visa website as part of Operation Payback, a campaign against companies that have withdrawn services from the whistleblowing website WikiLeaks.
The movement urged supporters to "get your weapons ready" then "FIRE FIRE FIRE!!!".
Several minutes after hacktivists urged the attack, visa.com went down.
Earlier attacks on Mastercard and PayPal were partially successful, affecting Mastercard's European operations