{"id":28642,"date":"2011-07-08T17:44:47","date_gmt":"2011-07-08T15:44:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=28642"},"modified":"2011-07-08T17:50:54","modified_gmt":"2011-07-08T15:50:54","slug":"vida-reinstates-wikileaks-financial-block","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/28642-vida-reinstates-wikileaks-financial-block.html","title":{"rendered":"Visa reinstates WikiLeaks financial block"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Visa Europe said Friday it has reinstated its block on credit card donations to whistleblower website WikiLeaks, after discovering it had been breached.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;An acquirer briefly accepted payments on a merchant site linked to WikiLeaks,&#8221; Visa Europe said in a statement issued in London.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As soon as this came to our attention, action was taken with the suspension of Visa payment acceptance to the site remaining in place.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>DataCell, the Icelandic data hosting service provider that handles WikiLeaks&#8217; donation collection, said Thursday that credit card payments to the whistleblowing website had become possible again.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have observed that an alternative payment processor that we have contracted with, has in fact opened the gateway for payments (to WikiLeaks) with Visa and MasterCard,&#8221; DataCell said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>In December, as WikiLeaks began publishing some 250,000 secret diplomatic cables, sparking an international controversy, Visa and MasterCard imposed a ban on all payments made to the site.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Visa Europe has reinstated its block on credit card donations to whistleblower website WikiLeaks<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":25463,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[36,2188,899,613],"class_list":["post-28642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-active","tag-financial-blockade","tag-visa","tag-wikileaks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28642"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28642"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28642\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28644,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28642\/revisions\/28644"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}