WikiLeaks: Who are the hackers behind Operation Payback? | Media | guardian.co.uk

WikiLeaks: Who are the hackers behind Operation Payback? Media guardian.co.uk: "MasterCard website was forced offline for several hours today, following an online assault led by a shadowy group of hackers protesting against the card issuer's decision to block payments made to the WikiLeaks website.
The 'distributed denial of service' attack was apparently orchestrated by a 'hacktivist' group calling itself Anonymous, which has in recent days temporarily paralysed the websites of Post Finance, the Swiss bank which closed WikiLeaks frontman Julian Assange's account, and the website of the Swedish prosecution office.
Twitter is next in its sights, following allegations that the social networking site is 'censoring' visibility of the breadth of discussion of WikiLeaks by preventing it from appearing in Twitter's 'trends'. Twitter has denied that it is doing this, saying its systems identify topics that are 'being talked about more right now than they were previously' – which doesn't include WikiLeaks.
But who, or what, is – or are – Anonymous?
A 22-year-old spokesman, who wished to be known only as 'Coldblood', told the Guardian that the group – which is about a thousand strong – is 'quite a loose band of people who share the same kind of ideals' and wish to be a force for 'chaotic good'."

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