Facebook deletes pro-WikiLeaks hackers' account

[Jeffrey Walton <noloader () gmail com>]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/40589611/ns/technology_and_science-security/

LONDON — Facebook and Twitter deleted the accounts of cyber activists
who targeted Visa and other Internet payment sites that sought to
block the WikiLeaks website after its release of U.S. diplomatic
cables.

Facebook confirmed it had removed the activists' Operation Payback
site on Thursday because it was promoting a distributed denial of
service attack — an illegal form of freezing websites. Twitter
declined to comment.

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