Cassell Bryan-Low of the Wall Street Journal gives us some insight about hackers toying with many corporations that have disgraced WikiLeaks. Although these hackers have been mainly attacking enemies by slowing down the loading speed of the companies' website pages.
The Swedish Prosecution Service said Wednesday that its website had been flooded overnight by denial of service attacks. The prosecutors' office said it reported the incident to Swedish police. The website for Claes Borgstrom, the lawyer representing the two women making the accusations against Mr. Assange, also crashed.Although believing in a cause such as WikiLeaks is a worthy personal trait, exacting revenge in this day and age on such a wide scale is pure recklessness and stupidity. Especially when the targets are big named and incredibly powerful such as MasterCard and PayPal. While the offense may only be minor, since the hackers were just causing unnatural web-traffic, the shear amount of victims make up for that.
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