Another message read: "There are some things WikiLeaks can't do. For everything else, there's Operation Payback."
Mastercard was not immediately available to comment but repeated attempts to load the site met without success.
So-called distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks also appeared to have been launched against PayPal, PostFinance, and the Swedish prosecutors office.
"We can confirm that there was an attempted DDoS attack on paypal.com," a spokeswoman said.
"The attack slowed some payments down for a short while but we remained fully operational throughout."
DDoS attacks, which are illegal in the UK, involve overloading a website with requests so it stops working.
"While we don't have much of an affiliation with WikiLeaks, we fight for the same reasons," the Anonymous group said in a statement on its website.
"We want transparency and we counter censorship....This is why we intend to utilise our resources to raise awareness, attack those against and support those who are helping lead our world to freedom and democracy."
In order to prevent hacking into your account it is advise not to use bank card online as many people can have access to it, and especially on an unknown site where it could be a fraud.
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