A Wikimedia Foundation, a non-profit organization supporting the infrastructure of several crowd-sourced wiki projects, including 'Wikipedia', has reported , stating that the internet encyclopedia outage was caused by a targeted hacker attack. It was previously reported that in several countries, 'Wikipedia' temporarily went into offline mode. According to available data, users from Russia, the UK, France, the Netherlands, Poland, and several other countries lost access to the web resource.
The message states that a prolonged attack was attempted to be repelled by information security specialists. The project support team worked intensively to restore access to 'Wikipedia' as quickly as possible.
'As one of the most popular websites in the world, 'Wikipedia' sometimes attracts the attention of 'malicious' users. Along with the rest of the internet, we operate in a challenging environment where threats are constantly evolving. For this reason, the Wikimedia community and the Wikimedia Foundation have created special systems and hired personnel for ongoing monitoring and risk mitigation. When a problem arises, we learn, we get better, and we prepare to do even better next time,' the statement on the organization's website says.
It is still unknown how extensive the attack on szerverek 'Wikipedia' was and what measures were taken to counter it. It is possible that this information will be revealed after an investigation into the incident.
Forrás: 3dnews.ru
