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Fri 12 Dec 2010Hackers excluded from social networking sites
ACCOUNTS BELONGING to hackers responsible for attacks on companies that are denying services to the WikiLeaks website were yesterday removed from popular social networking sites Twitter and Facebook.
The hacking campaign, known as “Operation: Payback”, had been using the accounts to co-ordinate attacks.
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