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'Anonymous' Hackers Group Demands PayPal Boycott
29 July 2011
A hackers team well-known for aiming government and corporate website, Anonymous demanded its followers on Wednesday to boycott online payment company PayPal.
The call arrived in just few days after US authorities arrested 14 alleged Anonymous activists for linked with Paypal's December attack.
Anonymous members are accused for conducting that attack in revenge for Paypal cutting its agreement with information leaker website Wikileaks. But its latest drive depends more on the old-fashioned boycott rather than new-fangled cyber-attacks.
Anonymous said in an online statement, "We encourage anyone using PayPal to immediately close their accounts and consider an alternative. The first step to being truly free is not putting one's trust into a company that freezes accounts when it feels like, or when it is pressured by the US government. Join us in our latest operation against PayPal - tweet pictures of your account closure ... spread the word."
By the time few people have commented their consent with the Anonymous call, a PayPal representative told to The Wall Street Journal that the company had not practiced any uncommon account closure activity.