Sydney Morning Herald reveals that a Sydney man (name to be kept secret) was responsible for the denial of service attacks of Paypal, Mastercard and Visa websites, in support of Julian Assange.

Dubbed “Anonymous“, the group claiming responsibility has taken Operation Payback to target companies which are not co-operating with Wikileaks or ‘doing them damage’ says, the Sydney man. “Anybody who’s accusing WikiLeaks of doing anything illegal – it’s just rubbish, because if that were true every journalist in Australia would be going to jail every time they got a leak”.

At face value, Visa and Mastercard appear to have cut off WikiLeaks based on increased pressure from the US government, although they are now feeling the heat themselves for their actions.