WikiLeaks says it was under powerful cyberattack - Yahoo! Finance: "NEW YORK (AP) -- The WikiLeaks website said it came under a forceful Internet-based attack on Tuesday morning, making it inaccessible for hours to users in the U.S. and Europe.
The site appears to have recovered from the attack with the help of Amazon.com Inc.'s U.S.-based server-for-rent service. Late Tuesday morning, Web traffic to the site was handled by Amazon Web Services.
The site, which distributed a trove of U.S. diplomatic documents on Sunday, said in a Twitter message on Tuesday morning that it was under a 'distributed denial of service attack,' a method commonly used by hackers to slow down or bring down sites. WikiLeaks didn't identify the attackers."
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