On the website of the non-profit organization Wikimedia Foundation, which supports the infrastructure of several crowdsourcing wiki projects, including Wikipedia, there appeared , which states that the Internet encyclopedia malfunctioned due to a targeted hacker attack. Earlier it became known that in a number of countries Wikipedia temporarily switched to offline operation. According to available data, users from Russia, Great Britain, France, the Netherlands, Poland and some other countries lost access to the web resource.
The message talks about a prolonged attack that information security specialists tried to repel. The project support team worked intensively to restore access to Wikipedia as quickly as possible.
βAs one of the most popular sites in the world, Wikipedia sometimes attracts the attention of unscrupulous users. Along with the rest of the Internet, we operate in a complex environment in which threats are constantly evolving. For this reason, the Wikimedia community and the Wikimedia Foundation have created systems and staff to continually monitor and mitigate risks. If a problem arises, we learn, we get better, and we prepare to be even better next time,β the organization said in a statement on its website.
It is not yet known how large-scale the attack was on the Wikipedia servers, and what actions were taken to repel it. It is possible that these data will be announced after the investigation of the incident.
Source: 3dnews.ru