Following the release of 250,000 diplomatic cables by website WikiLeaks last week the site has come under attack, first from a massive Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) attack, then from Amazon who pulled it’s hosting from their servers and finally from EveryDNS who then pulled the plug on the website’s domain name.
Then the attention turned to the website’s boss and founder Julian Assange, first with an arrest warrant for alleged sexual assault in Sweden in August and now, the latest assault comes from Assange’s Swiss bank who have frozen his accounts and funds.
PostFinance, the Swiss Post Office Bank says it has frozen a ‘defence fund’ and other assets worth 31,000 euros according to a report by the BBC. There are no other details at this time and Assange, who is currently reported to be in hiding in the UK, has so far not commented.
In other WikiLeaks news, popular online financial website PayPal has also withdrawn its services to WikiLeaks and it doesn’t look like the story is going to end there either. How many other companies will pull the plug, either voluntarily, for purely commercial reasons or because of pressure from third-parties yet remains to be seen.
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