Harrison, NY - After initial denials, it has been confirmed that thousands of MasterCard accounts may have been compromised.

Earlier today the MasterCard servers were taken down by a DDOS attack and replaced with a phishing scam for at least a few hours. All traffic to the servers, including payments made by cardholders, was routed to the perpetrators of the attack. A spokesperson from MasterCard said "We are doing everything in our power to remedy the situation. We are currently working on getting our servers back up, but have already taken down connection to the phishing servers. We can't know how many people were affected until we know how long the information was being stolen for, but anyone that has used their card today may have been affected."

It is not yet known whether these attacks are related to hacktivist group Anonymous' promise to attack all the companies who withdraw their support for WikiLeaks due to pressure from the government. As of the writing of this article the MasterCard website was still down.

Ghoku wrote:

I will personally myself support wikileaks. Julian just for arrested today in England and also got charged for rape. He actually did NOT rape anyone. Kinda weird how they all came together after wikileaks did the Ddos. At least aussie government is supporting him.