PayPal confirmed on Monday that it permanently restricted the account used by Wikileaks, citing a violation of its Acceptable Use Policy. The action was just the latest by government and private sector organizations in response to the recent publication of leaked diplomatic cables from the U.S. Department of State. The umbrella hacking-activist group Anonymous announced plans to target the Paypal Website with a distributed denial of service attack starting Monday evening. PayPal followed Amazon as the latest big American company to deny their services to Wikileaks.
Source: https://threatpost.com/paypal-drops-wikileaks-denies-ddos-attack-120610/74741/