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| Posted: Wed Jul 27, 2011 9:48 am Post subject: Anonymous Hackers Ask PayPal Users to Close Accounts |
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The hacking collective, Anonymous, has started a new campaign aimed at two of the web's biggest brands, encouraging users to close their accounts and use alternative services.
Is Hacktivism the new Normal?
Rather than take direct action against the PayPal website, the Anonymous and LulzSec hacking groups, acting collectively under the name of AntiSec are imploring web users to abandon their PayPal accounts for alternative methods of web transaction. The full communique highlights PayPal's continued refusal to allow funds to be paid to Wikileaks and accuses the FBI of harassment of its members.
The salient appeal for PayPal users reads:
more.. link to news article |
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