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PayPal gives up the goods on 1000 Anonymous DDoS attackers

article published on 29 July, 2011

Last December, hacktivist group Anonymous carried out a DDoS attack on online transaction giant PayPal. The company says today that they collected well over 1000 IP addresses for those responsible and have passed on the info to the FBI. PayPal was targeted because they froze the donation account of WikiLeaks. The site says they collected traffic logs via a Radware intrusion prevention ... [ read the full article ]

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oneguy
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_ 		30. July 2011 @ 19:01 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
That sucks.
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themind
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_ 		31. July 2011 @ 21:42 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Only 1000? That's funny.
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Necrosaro
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_ 		5. August 2011 @ 14:20 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
F Paypal, I have been screwed by paypal (not buyers, etc) several times. Like a couple grand held for 180 days and not able to withdraw, all while they gain interest on it, and of course they pocket the interest while I have to wait 6 months to get my money.
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champman
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_ 		6. August 2011 @ 02:05 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Most of those IPs were probably proxies, unless some silly kids yet again use their own IPs. Good job their security held up too and actually retains their data!
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