Hackers Gone Wild

[Felix]

Recently there has been a huge cyber attack on big websites such as, Paypal, Mastercard and Visa. This is due to a huge cyber attack and a project called, Project Payback.
As soon as paypal is back up I would suggest that everyone deleted their credit card information, seeing keeping it there could destroy your bank accounts balance, if you know what I mean.

[xxMATTGxx]

Your data on any of these websites are not at risk.

[Felix]

Well they are getting into their databases and I saw on the news to do exactly what I said.

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Don't hurt me Matt.

[xxMATTGxx]

Well they are getting into their databases and I saw on the news to do exactly what I said.

---------- Post added 09-12-2010 at 08:55 AM ----------

Don't hurt me Matt.

I doubt this is the case, they aren't trying to take data anyway. They are just giving these sites a wake up call by taking them offline for a number of hours because they stopped offering their services to Wikileaks. If you could link me to any valid news source such as the BBC that state our details are at risk then please do so.

Mastercard themselves have said:


Recent rumors of a security breach are false & cardholder numbers that were published are fictional. Your info is secure

[Felix]

I'm sorry! But the tv said that, but then again I guess it's only the local news reporters and it's Australia ;(. Reply to my pm

[Eoin247]

Phew, you nearly gave me a heart attack there before matt posted. :)

[Felix]

Thank god he did or I would have been charged with pixelslaughter

[Icemaniceice]

Phew, you nearly gave me a heart attack there before matt posted. :)

haha same here, that would be absolutely horrible if it really did get hacked.

[Jin]

And there I was thinking this was going to be about some new sexy dvd featuring hackers on spring break. :'(

I do believe that this is actually a DDoS attack on these companies whereby they flood the site for page requests causing the server to use all its resources or reset, whilst the data remains secure it does lead to service outages which is what has happened in this case.

[FlyingJesus]

Loving this, "hackers gone wild" as though usually they're so docile and law-abiding

[Felix]

Hahahah Jin, Il try and get Quentin Tarantino to make one for you....

[Casio]

All they are doing is DDoSing them, all data is completely safe, and this isnt even hacking...

[Niall!]

The whole info hacking thing is /new/ trying to use mass hysteria to put paypal/mastercard/visa but telling everyone the accounts aren't safe when in fact they are.