Anonymous hackers plead guilty to 2010 PayPal cyberattack

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Thirteen people have pleaded guilty to charges they were involved in a 2010 cyberattack on PayPal for the eBay unit’s refusal to process payments for WikiLeaks.

The hacktivist collective claimed responsibility for engineering the December 2010 distributed-denial-of-service attack in retaliation for the online payment processing company’s suspension of an account linked to WikiLeaks after the document-leaking organization released a large number of classified documents.

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