CASSELL BRYAN-LOW & SVEN GRUNDBERG
The Wall Street Journal
December 8, 2010
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A growing roster of companies, prosecutors and banks that have tangled with WikiLeaks and its detained founder, Julian Assange, have been hit with online attacks, apparently from hackers bent on exacting revenge for the document-leaking website.
The attacks expanded Wednesday, a day after Mr. Assange was arrested and denied bail in London in connection with sexual-misconduct accusations in Sweden. A range of organizations, including MasterCard Inc. and the Swedish prosecutors’ office, reported technical difficulties with their websites that appear to stem from “denial of service” attacks, where computers flood a server to prevent it from displaying a web page.
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A WikiLeaks spokesman couldn’t immediately be reached for comment. In a television interview Wednesday, WikiLeaks spokesman Kristinn Hrafnsson said moves by companies that have cut off Wikileaks are “causing an outrage among the general public that actually might hurt their own business.”
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