Mastercard and VISA websites down

VISA and Mastercard have been subjected to attacks causing their websites to shut down.

An anonymous group is known to be behind the cause as it is known they have pledged to take revenge on any organisation that withdraws its services from Wikileaks.

A spokesman from Mastercard stated that payments were impaired, however there was no real impact on customers abilities to use their cards.

In addition to credit giants Mastercard, VISA also suffered attacks that caused minor problems as they opted to withdraw services to the controversial website.

The anonymous group is communicating via the social networking site Twitter. Their page Operational Payback stated the VISA site had been hacked.

Later the website was restored and back to working normally added Ted Carr from VISA.

This was quickly followed by the twitter page of the anonymous group experienced a crash and was also down. Twitter stated on this page the account has been suspended.

A spokesman from Twitter sated that they do not comment on actions taken on member’s accounts. But form sources at the BBC they know of a tweet given out by the anonymous group contained consumer credit information.