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MasterCard said its SecureCode payment verification system experienced disruptions temporarily Wednesday as part of an attack that also took out its main website.
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Forgetting for now the political fallout, the WikiLeaks affair has evolved into one with major business implications for the financial services industry.
December 9 -
MasterCard and a Swiss bank that attempted to cut ties with Wikileaks are apparently feeling the wrath of a group of hackers claiming to have shut down each company's site.
December 8
A suspect was arrested for allegedly taking part in Wednesday's online attacks against MasterCard Inc., Visa Inc. and PayPal Inc.
Visa and MasterCard may also be facing a lawsuit for trying to cut ties with WikiLeaks after it exposed a large number of classified government documents.
Dutch prosecutors said they have arrested a 16-year-old boy suspected of being involved in the cyber attacks against the payment networks. On Wednesday a series of online attacks slowed or prevented access to the websites of MasterCard, Visa and eBay Inc.'s PayPal.
One effect of the attacks was a temporary outage of SecureCode, a MasterCard payment-verification system.
Separately, the Icelandic payment processor DataCell, which handled payments for WikiLeaks, said it is considering taking "immediate legal actions to make donations possible again" for WikiLeaks.
Andreas Fink, DataCell's chief executive, said on its website that "the suspension of payments toward WikiLeaks is a violation of the agreements" the payments brands had "with their customers."
