Cybersecurity
Visa Europe Blocks WikiLeaks Donations Through Payment Site
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Visa Europe Ltd. said it stopped payments to WikiLeaks a second time, hours after an Internet site restarted donations to the anti-secrecy group.
WikiLeaks’s payment provider, DataCell, attempted to use an alternative-payment gateway to process money sent through MasterCard, the world’s second-largest payments network, and Visa Europe, which runs the largest card network in the European Union, Reykjavik, Iceland-based DataCell said yesterday.