An anonymous reader quotes the website of Ireland’s national public service broadcasting:
Popular online reference website Wikipedia went down in several countries after the website was targeted by what it described as a “malicious attack”. The server of the Wikimedia Foundation, which hosts the site, suffered a “massive” Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack, the organisation’s German account said in a tweet last night.
In a separate statement the Wikimedia Foundation said that the attack on the encyclopedia – one of the world’s most popular websites – was “ongoing” and teams were working to restore access… Wikimedia condemned the breach of its server, saying it threatened “everyone’s fundamental rights to freely access and share information.”
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Source:: Slashdot