Former vice presidential candidate , and hackers are fighting back. Computer World UK reported that her personal website was down Thursday morning local time and in an email to ABC news, said that her and her husband鈥檚 credit card information had been hacked.
The attacks come only a week after Palin 鈥 said the Wikileaks founder, Julian Assange, should be .
In an outburst on Facebook, Palin had branded Assange 鈥渁n anti-American operative with blood on his hands鈥.
After the attack on her site, Palin wrote: 鈥淭his is what happens when you exercise the First Amendment and speak against [Assange鈥檚] sick, un-American espionage efforts.鈥
Hackers have also hit websites belonging to WikiLeaks critics such as , an independent from Connecticut, according to Computer World.