WikiLeaks supporters target Amazon.com with next cyberattack

By on Dec 9, 2010 at 9:41 AM
Internet December 9, 2010

A global, ever-expanding team of hackers called “Anonymous” has announced its next target in a series of cyberattacks that have taken down multiple websites over the past few days. Among its targets were the websites of both Visa and Mastercard following news that the institutions would cease delivery of funds that had been donated to WikiLeaks. Using Twitter to announce the attack, the group is preparing to take down Amazon.com, presumably due to the company’s abrupt cancellation of its hosting agreement with WikiLeaks after being pressured by the Department of Homeland Security.  The attack on Amazon.com will begin at 11:00am Eastern.

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  • http://twitter.com/amwmedia Andrew Worcester

    you KNOW that you’re just adding to the attack by spreading this information right? very clever of them to announce the time of their attack, I must say. Because everyone who checks if the attack actually brought the site down, will be adding to the traffic impact on amazon’s servers.

    • Asdfasf

      lets help them by checking if the attack worked !!!

  • Williamiv14

    why is twitter allowing these terrorists to post? why has there not been any cooperation between twitter and the department of homeland security in order to trace the ip address’ belonging to these anarchists. i am well aware that proxies are most likely being used but there is technology in place to work around these proxies and find the criminals who are responsible for these cyber attacks.

    • http://twitter.com/grahamfluet Graham Fluet

      There has. But they don’t want the hackers to know that they are being tracked.

    • http://www.facebook.com/Dummmy Anthony Eckert

      I hear the US law can go after people from other country’s pretty easy….

    • opiapr

      Terrorist???

      • Djblois

        Yes, what they are doing is cyber terrorism.

      • jason6g

        sadly if things would have been worked out peacefully this pissing contest never would have amounted to what it has.

        cheers to them for accomplishing so much though. always nice to see David take on Goliath ;)

        even though what they are doing is “terroristic” i find it amusing. just let the people have their website already..

      • Djblois

        So you are saying – just let the people have their website? why? Where is your logic why they should be allowed to BREAK THE LAW?

      • Anonymous

        yes exactly. let people have their websites. what LAW did the wikileaks website break?
        go ahead. i’ll wait for you to pull it out of your butt.

  • http://twitter.com/mfg68 Matt Galo

    Fuck these hackers. Get a life.

    • http://www.facebook.com/Dummmy Anthony Eckert

      This is far from a hack. Anyone can download the stuff and help in just a few minutes. Hackers actually do some hard things. Not like this.

  • John

    meh. wonder when these morons will find out that ddosing isn’t getting revenge. no other person gives a crap that it’s down for a few hours. week, yes… but that’s impossible for a site like amazon.

    they could get their point across in ways that’d actually matter

    my .02

    (no i’m not against wikileaks…just the actions that are being taken are pointless imo)

    • Brett

      You’re right. Amazon losing a few hours of business isn’t going to show them anything. What are they going to lose, $50?

      Signed,

      Sarcastic in the Sandhills

      • Anonymous

        lmao! nice one.. some people are so dumb.. “why dont they just trace the ips?” hahahahahhahaha

    • http://www.facebook.com/Dummmy Anthony Eckert

      99% of anon is just trolling anyways. Its funny to see so many people confused. Welcome to the actually internet. Its not just full of Americans. Its actually called the World Wide Web.

  • mike

    It’s hard to know who to root for in this fight.

    On the one hand, you have the legislature, government, banks, corporations, and financial institutions that helped meltdown the economy putting millions out of work, out of their homes, and their children’s future into doubt. They are as greedy as pigs at a trough, and could care less about regular citizens and customers. They just want to keep their own interests in mind, do what benefits them, and as far as the corporations, banks and financial institutions, even greedier investors happy with a high stock price by sqeezing every last dime out of unsuspecting credit cardholders. Sure, Amazon itself is better than some of the big banks, but this is only the newest target.

    On the other hand, you have a group of people who are set on total “anarchy”. They are perfectly willing to destroy international relationships that have taken centuries in some cases to build, and put many lives at risk in the process. Up to and including starting a war between two nations who were on the edge to begin with. They are also the half-smart technical geeks who have made the dark side of the internet possible… Cyber crime, slow networks, useless PCs, lost identities.

    In this case, I think the fight is a very ugly draw…. They are both evil in their own way, and the fight itself will spill over into the lives of all of us, collateral damage, if you will.

    I think both side of this battle should go to their respective corners and reflect on what they are doing before they destroy us all…. Call it a day before someone gets seriously hurt.

    • D_Town_Tony

      “On the one hand, you have the legislature, government, banks, corporations, and financial institutions that helped meltdown the economy putting millions out of work, out of their homes, and their children’s future into doubt”

      I get the majority of what you are saying but why do people always blame the government and banks for causing people to lose their homes and “put their children’s future into doubt.” The majority of people who lost their home did so because they bought a home they couldn’t afford and didn’t save accordingly in case they lost their job. Just because the bank was willing to give someone a certain mortgage size doesn’t mean that person has to buy something that size. It’s called common sense. People need to stop blaming the government and the banks for all their problems……it’s embarrassing. Hell, half the people that lose there jobs end up spending the first couple months of unemployment as if it is a paid vacation. I lost my job and felt disgusted that i needed help from the government and got off it as soon as possible. People need to hold themselves accountable for once. We’ve slowly become a country of crybabies who look to the government for help, all the while blaming them for everything.

      • Djblois

        I agree completely. The only trouble that I see with the government in this case is that they were trying to help people by forcing banks to give loans to people who could not afford them. However, the individual who takes out the loan is tacitly consenting to the wrong doing.

      • Anonymous

        with your logic, why did the government bail out the corporations? majority of banks who lost their capital did so because they sold mortgages and loans that could not be repair, and didnt diversify or screen accordingly in case the loans defaulted. just because someone was willing to borrow money on the terms that were misrepresented to them by bank agents doesn’t mean the bank has to lend something that size….its embarrassing that you don’t understand such fundamental flaws in your own logic.

  • Blueyzfr6

    Here’s a solution for WikiLeaks…

    If our Government really wants to keep classified documents secret, they should be kept in the same place that Obama’s college transcripts and birth certificate are kept.

    • http://www.bgr.com Andrew Munchbach

      Columbia University and Hawaii?

    • jason6g

      zing! lol

      if something is shameful, maybe one shouldn’t be doing said action ;)

  • http://twitter.com/kirkewilliams kirkewilliams

    Lets get those terrorist hackers!

  • R. Mutt

    “Terrorist Hackers” They take your right of speech away and instead of supporting the few people that are willing to do something about it you just put ignorant labels them. You just rather bend over and take it right? Well go ahead.

    • opiapr

      Agree most people are so blidsided. They will repeat anything but will not defend any of the freedoms they loose everyday.

    • Djblois

      Confidential Information is NOT protected under the Freedom of Speech. With your logic, I can steal my companies secrets and leak the information to the press and say Freedom of Speech. No, it is NOT protected.

    • Djblois

      Confidential Information is NOT protected under the Freedom of Speech. With your logic, I can steal my companies secrets and leak the information to the press and say Freedom of Speech. No, it is NOT protected.

      • R. Mutt

        Nice try but that’s the same old American BS, label any kind of information “secret” and get unlimited right over anything related to it including throwing human rights to the toilet. Read some history books my friend.

      • Djblois

        Actually I read history, economics, political science. etc. books everyday. You need to read a little. The information was Confidential – what would reading a history book have to do with this anyway? This is a legal issue. So read a law book, my friend. That is the liberal mindset that they should be able to do no matter what they want – even if it is illegal.

      • Anonymous

        According to you state secrets aren’t secrets????

      • R. Mutt

        You say your interested about the law but you reject and advise to learn from your own history. Where do you think your law comes from? Your brag to read a lot, but if you don’t understand how your law came to be what it is today, its just a pseudo-intellectual attempt justify your arrogant ignorance.

    • Rsj0404

      Who’s right of speech are they taking away? You can still talk more shit about anybody you want in this country than anywhere else on the planet. This is a case where private conversations are being released. How would you like it if someone tapped your house and played all the bad stuff you said about your friends TO your friends and the people you talk about that work at your office.(you know you do) Now times that by 1000 because these relationships actually matter.
      I don’t like big government at all but what I can’t stand more than anything are people who cry out to protect free speech and then turn around and tell me what I said wasn’t “politically correct.” Yeah, hack amazon you internet tough guys, you’ll be forgotten tomorrow.

      • Anonymous

        the freedom of speech of the people who are doing nothing more than relay the information.
        its mind boggling how ignorant you are
        yes it was illegal for the person who was on the inside to get a hold of it. but once it was out to be provided to wikileaks. its out. wl is not responsible for it anymore than the rest of the internet is responsible for everything that is posted on it.
        if wl broke the law then so did every other website that used materials from it to report the stories leaked.

      • Rsj0404

        I never said anything about it being legal or illegal you idiot. It’s like this; some asshole comes to you with some damaging information about someone and you either tell him to get lost or you publish it. Wikileaks published it. Once it was out it doesn’t matter who else reports it. They were the ones who got it and published it. Sure, someone else would have but that doesn’t mean they did the right thing. You’re obviously a db who thinks everyone’s business is your business.

      • R. Mutt

        Your ideas are partially correct, but you seem to struggle to grasp part of your reality. Your can speak all you want alright, as long as what you are saying its irrelevant or no one is listening to you. You haven’t notice any repression because you have no voice, if you did you would see things differently.

      • R. Mutt

        And try to not became irritated, either you learn or you don’t. It does not make any difference to any one but to you.

      • Rsj0404

        Apparently it means a great deal to you. I just wish you could get your point across more clearly instead of telling me, “your can speak all you want alright”

  • serpentor

    I hope all you commenters are trolling. I wouldn’t have expected this to be the reaction.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_IVFCATSFPLYDSNYNZY7K2QBZKU Matthew

    i agree with you mike, surprised there has not been a revolution, well actually if there wasnt one when the shit hit the fan, when the corporations failed and banks failed and got bailed out i guess there is no chance now.

  • DD

    dont understand why the government doesn’t have its own ddos team

    • opiapr

      Who need them whrn they have homeland security and the sate department doing the same job just by making phone calls.

  • http://twitter.com/RCtennis3811 Randall Rosales

    yay fascism

  • Anonymous

    What happened to the good old days where these people would just disappear and not get a platform to speak from and media coverage. If this was happening to Russia, China, Iran, North Korea the person would have “disappeared” a long time ago and would have never been talked about. The US government is getting kind of soft.

    • D_Town_Tony

      I agree. Why do people think that we have the right to know everything regardless of whether something is classified or not? In what world do people live in that actually think that’s a good idea. There is no such thing as a completely transparent government.

  • Anonymous

    What happened to the good old days where these people would just disappear and not get a platform to speak from and media coverage. If this was happening to Russia, China, Iran, North Korea the person would have “disappeared” a long time ago and would have never been talked about. The US government is getting kind of soft.

  • TheWhat

    You know I wouldn’t have as much of a problem with wikileaks if they released information that was useful that the public can look at and learn from or discover truths where either a government entity or corporation were lying. The Pat Tillman story is an example even though it wasn’t Wikileaks that revealed the truth but something of that sort. But what it looks like to me, is a group and specifially a guy (Julian Assange) that is on a power trip that wants to be in the spotlight and get all of the credit and noteriety that comes with the release of classified information. But the fact that he/they are merely trying to embarass governments tells me they are not really in it to benefit anyone. Maybe they started off that way and have become greedy power hungry, media whores like everyone else in the spotlight. So I say arrest him (Assange) and everyone that directly helps him. Their actions have proven they only care about themselves similar to the governments and corporations they are exposing.

  • serpentor

    8 minutes in and Amazon is still zipping along.

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