of the to get hacked overnight. also places like mastercard in the cross hairs for cutting ties with wikileaks. so-called hacktavists are crashing the website. first crashing visa s website and then triggering online service interruptions at mastercard, as well as amazon.com, paypal. let s bring in atika shubert where wikileaks founder is still in jail. also sarah palin s site getting hit? that s right, these are politicians, corporations and governments being targeted. basically anyone, this group called anonymous cs is an enemy of wick lesion. visa, mastercard and paypal have
hackers launching a series of attacks. sites belonging to sarah palin as well as visa and mastercard also shut down. sar sarahpat.com got shut down. so palin, visa and mastercard not the only targets. at 76:30 eastern coming up in 20 minutes here, atika shubert joins us from london with more on the cyberwars and its jailed founder julian assange. a cruise ship is limping back to shore after a high-seas nightmare. the ship filled with american passengers were en route to argentina from antarctica.
way of destroying credit scores very, very quickly. what if you want a card, the suggestion of a lot of money managers, cut up a lot of extra credit cards. you close accounts is that going to hurt your credit score? it absolutely can hurt your score and here s why fico scores love to see separation between your balances and your credit limits across all of your credit cards. if you re closing credit cards you re not using, you re actually taking away available credit from the calculation, and you do not want to do that. if you don t want to use your card any longer, fine. shred it, hide it. just don t close t. any exceptions to that? what about the department store cards that you get to get 40% off your bill and you just want to close it? any exceptions to the rule there? yeah. it s more important if you have visas, mastercards, with large credit limtsz, $15,000, $20,000. credit cards issued by retail outlets are usually very, very low. limits are very low. if you re going to c